“the nukes would be the easiest weapon system to divert funds away from because nobody’s going to use them anyways and if they try, well, the world has bigger things to worry about than the colonel’s new yacht in Cyprus.”
What a brilliant piece of writing this is!! Gave me a good laugh, and is spot on.
I really appreciate the effort you put in Wes. I hope you are making a living with your work, because I think it’s the best mil-related material online. Great technical insights. Unlike other writers, you seem to actually possess the technical expertise they grab and go from Chat and Grok. Even more importantly you don’t lard your work with ad hominem political attacks and naive economic scrawl like others.
Careful, in some ways you are also describing US supply chains where we can paper over insane deficiencies in our industrial base by paying premium dollars for so called milspec parts.
Yes, we can afford to spend a lot more military than the rest of the world, but the Chinese are already giving us a decade-plus lesson on how much more military they can build for their use case than we can.
That’s the other main difference is that the Chinese are presently building tor a specific purpose - to annex the so called South China Sea as well as Taiwan. As they start building more CVNs, expect a broader footprint worldwide also.
The rate at which they are building destroyers, RoRos, and like floating stuff should send collective shivers up our spines re: the fate of Taiwan and any territories the Chinese want to annex or control beyond. Ie the whole rest of the pacific, for example.
Maybe Ukraine bombed parts of it
“the nukes would be the easiest weapon system to divert funds away from because nobody’s going to use them anyways and if they try, well, the world has bigger things to worry about than the colonel’s new yacht in Cyprus.”
What a brilliant piece of writing this is!! Gave me a good laugh, and is spot on.
I really appreciate the effort you put in Wes. I hope you are making a living with your work, because I think it’s the best mil-related material online. Great technical insights. Unlike other writers, you seem to actually possess the technical expertise they grab and go from Chat and Grok. Even more importantly you don’t lard your work with ad hominem political attacks and naive economic scrawl like others.
Keep up the good work!
This is like the joke Russian "robot" that fell on its face recently.
By the time the Russians get that thing flying, we'll all be using warp drives and transporters. 😉 😜
Touch wood! Funny piece. Thanks!
where will the dosh to complete it come from
Careful, in some ways you are also describing US supply chains where we can paper over insane deficiencies in our industrial base by paying premium dollars for so called milspec parts.
Yes, we can afford to spend a lot more military than the rest of the world, but the Chinese are already giving us a decade-plus lesson on how much more military they can build for their use case than we can.
That’s the other main difference is that the Chinese are presently building tor a specific purpose - to annex the so called South China Sea as well as Taiwan. As they start building more CVNs, expect a broader footprint worldwide also.
The rate at which they are building destroyers, RoRos, and like floating stuff should send collective shivers up our spines re: the fate of Taiwan and any territories the Chinese want to annex or control beyond. Ie the whole rest of the pacific, for example.