Western MI complexes are built for profit, not sustained combat. Even during the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan there were munitions shortages, and that wasn't against a conventional military.
Because the US military, like everything else in the US, is a massive grift with no thought given to long-term consequences. As a result, the actual industrial output of the MIC is miniscule compared to its budget. I don't have a direct source but saw it here elsewhere before, but Russia makes something like a million artillery shells a year, and the US makes 65,000.
Edit: I researched the numbers out of curiosity, and the ratio is less lopsided. The US currently makes around 168k shells a year and Russia made 750k shells in 2021. Given how much smaller Russia's economy is though... Oof.
That’s the efficiency of PrivatizationTM baby. What do you mean it can’t actually compete with planned economies and that’s why in conflicts that actually stress countries they start mobilizing the economy? That’s crazy tankie rambling, the invisible hand can’t be beat!!!
how the fuck are we low on ANYTHING when we spend $700 billion each fucking year on the pentagon?
$52,000 trash cans probably don't help.
Western MI complexes are built for profit, not sustained combat. Even during the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan there were munitions shortages, and that wasn't against a conventional military.
Because the US military, like everything else in the US, is a massive grift with no thought given to long-term consequences. As a result, the actual industrial output of the MIC is miniscule compared to its budget. I don't have a direct source but saw it here elsewhere before, but Russia makes something like a million artillery shells a year, and the US makes 65,000.
Edit: I researched the numbers out of curiosity, and the ratio is less lopsided. The US currently makes around 168k shells a year and Russia made 750k shells in 2021. Given how much smaller Russia's economy is though... Oof.
That’s the efficiency of PrivatizationTM baby. What do you mean it can’t actually compete with planned economies and that’s why in conflicts that actually stress countries they start mobilizing the economy? That’s crazy tankie rambling, the invisible hand can’t be beat!!!
Corruption
Most eficient system ever.
Every time some wayward youth pulls the trigger on a javelin missile system, it's ~$180,000.
All of it goes to like 6 planes and 2 ships and the army just wastes like a billion bullets firing them into hillsides