That's definitely embarrassing and shows that quantifying the military in dollars is misleading. For instance, last year the Pentagon said China was acquiring weapons 5x faster than the US. But China's budget is about a third I believe. To make matters worse for the Americans, you need industry to build weapons, and American industry is much smaller than China's. So there's probably not even the industrial capacity for the Pentagon to quintuple its weapons acquisitions.
That's definitely embarrassing and shows that quantifying the military in dollars is misleading. For instance, last year the Pentagon said China was acquiring weapons 5x faster than the US. But China's budget is about a third I believe. To make matters worse for the Americans, you need industry to build weapons, and American industry is much smaller than China's. So there's probably not even the industrial capacity for the Pentagon to quintuple its weapons acquisitions.
bc most of the money is funneled to MIC shareholders, execs, and DoD PMCs
The shareholders were upset we left Afghanistan so we need something else to dump money into.
Oh, America offshored everything but weapons manufacturing. Those factories, we still have in abundance.
Distributed evenly throughout every congressional district, so if there is ever a cut in spending, they will make sure to hurt all of them.