B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for December 05, 2024

Yupsolutely.

Stick to your guns and you’ll go far

Sad, but true.

Like my Dad. Made good money!

Johnny isn’t wrong.

Isra… nevermind.

The North, and there wasn’t anything civil about it.

If there’s a need, fill it and the world will be your oyster. Just ask Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, or Jeff Bezos.

There is talk about putting a stop to some of these contracts. Talk is one thing and actions are another.

In the Star Trek world, it’s the Ferengis.

Give Johnny extra credit for that answer.

Blaming the ones who provided the tools to avoid being slaughtered.

Unappreciative.

Which one?

Immortal words of Eisenhower: Beware the Military-Industrial Complex

I’m always giving the correct answer!

President Eisenhower warned us to beware of the military industrial complex.The day before Kennedy was inaugurated.

And dose fences are still standing.

Washington’s Farewell Address noted the danger of “those overgrown military establishments, which under any form of government are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.”

….and the money is still talking today!!!

Sadly, the honest truth.

I think Johnny is right.

I can’t figure out what would be the obliquely named “Great war of the Western World.” I think the leading candidate would be the mostly “cold” war against communism waged by the allied nations aligned with the USA, and culminating in the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Sometimes it got hot, as it did on October 27, 1962. If not for the convictions of Vasili Arkhipov we might not be here.

Defense contractors a euphemism for war profiteers? Paging Daddy Warbucks…..

Who will win the next one? No one

Very close, Johnny, but it was the Military – Industrial Complex.

BINGO! Everybody became a defense contractor.

I am all for a strong national defense, but I have concerns about how the money is spent.

Congress people buy votes with jobs. So it is in their interest to have a defense contractor in their district. Therefore, the emphasis is entirely on hardware. Companies lobby congress for programs and congress cuts a deal to get the work for their district.

Now, don’t get me wrong. If we go to war, I want us to have the best toys. However, one could build a fighter aircraft in a couple of months or even weeks if the emphasis were put there. No other country can match that.

To build a good officer or NCO takes about a decade. If we are going to spend the money, spend it on the people. All other things being equal, the military that is trained best and led best, wins. Also, unlike military hardware that becomes obsolete, when military personnel “retire” they become an asset to the civilian workforce.

Ach ja! Arbeit Macht Frei…!

Here’s a tip. Sell shovels during the next gold rush.

Don’t forget the Offense Contractors as well!

Igitur qui desiderata Pacem, preparet bellum. Think of what China is up to, they are America’s biggest threat.

Defense contractors are raking it in from all sides on the stupidity of mankind.

B.CN.U…

And still winning.

Will the Military-Industrial Complex also attempt to punish this president if he withdraws from Iraq or elsewhere?

That withdrawal should be done after the new Inspector General does the report on the failed withdrawal from Afghanistan — as a warning to those who were, um, “insufficiently diligent” in planning and executing the Afghanistan withdrawal.

(I assume there was no report already prepared, which provided useful information about repeating that failure — including who to omit from the process of preparing and carrying out the plan.)