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Locklin ... meh. HL Meneken indeed.

Here’s a serious military acquisition source:

https://acquisitiontalk.com

The problem is a Soviet level inefficient bureaucracy. Its not 5 years to get ammo- it’s 6 years to get to contract. Never mind production. Beware/ they CAN waive it all and move fast.

As far as the general demoralization and internal moral and leadership collapse- YES.

As noted by many:

1. Constant wars that are either tossed away success, or delusional overreach (make the Afghans or Iraqi into White Liberals) and deployment treadmills until you quit, die, retire or crack up - divorce and other problems await.

BY THE WAY- the same people kept deploying and the same people who didn’t - they stayed home and advanced their careers. YES. They went to service schools, war doesn’t count for career progression.

= A nightmare of leadership internally.

2. You can’t de-Establish the Constitution with American Troops doing the absolute unthinkable and swearing in a President- but it was done.

3. The military is 80% generational and they lost the warrior core. Parents told their children NO. And far from just White Parents (the military may be one of the more mixed race marriages groups in America).

4. Nothing here in the military that’s not happening in dozens of USA cities (same people same families).

5. Yes, vilifying whites who are the combat arms core, 80% of Afghanistan casualties and 73% of Iraq casualties at long last worked its Dark Magic. This doesn’t mean we hate our Dusky hued Brothers in Arms, we just left. Why fight for people who hate you as their core organizing and animating principle?

6. The notion of a Draft is absurd, and if they tried to draft veterans children.... well... uh BOOM.

7. Underneath all that the warrior caste and millions of veterans and military remain, and the country’s tech skills remain, and the damaged but not destroyed industrial capacity is very rapidly being rebuilt. That it doesn’t translate into munitions rapidly is due to a fatally congested geroncratic government that is dying.

8. IF a leader came by whatever means- with leadership anything can be done. Hopefully this will be pointed at Space or internally.

9. Please understand if a Leader stood up who could summon the veterans and the people we could reset very fast.

10. As far as the obese kids etc and all the kids suck etc...

it’s called exercise, and the kids don’t suck as much as the adults think they do.

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