Faced With Evolving Threats, U.S. Navy Struggles to Change
Faced With Evolving Threats, U.S. Navy Struggles to Change
A new generation of cheaper and more flexible vessels could be vital in any conflict with China, but the Navy remains lashed to big shipbuilding programs driven by tradition, political influence and jobs.
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This is the military in a nutshell. It ostensibly needs to protect the nation, but civilian industries exist as a result, whose executives have generals in their pockets. If the industry no longer serves the needs of the military, then the military should stop using it; but that doesn't reduce the plight of a worker who would become unemployed as a result. Who suffers from this tension? Every taxpayer who isn't an executive or a general with a cushy retirement job, but especially workers and average servicemembers.
Certainly true.
Right now we have a military that serves the interests of the industrial complex and not the other way around.
In WWII it wasn't that way. The government did not have companies that it would be seduced into paying more than a fair value for military equipment