you have a top-heavy, heavily centralized economy, and a culture that's almost exclusively an honor society.quality and innovation are almost always going to take a backseat to corruption and face-saving in that kind of environment...
That assumes we continuously advance. Obviously, Trump is doing a really good job so far, but if the nation backslides at all… I certainly wouldn’t say we were heading in a good direction militarily before
Our Main Battle Tank dates from the early 1980s, and is the bastard love child of a 1960s project. Our main service rifle is a 1960s Air Force survival rifle with a giggle switch. Our Navy consists of old ships, newly built old ships, and new ships that are going to have to be decommissioned early.
We've been resting on our laurels for quite a while now, bubba.
you have a top-heavy, heavily centralized economy, and a culture that's almost exclusively an honor society.quality and innovation are almost always going to take a backseat to corruption and face-saving in that kind of environment...
Then it’s a good thing for them that they can get access to all that quality gear we abandoned, isn’t it?
yeah, but the upside is it means they'll always be (at best) one step behind us in terms of combat readiness...
That assumes we continuously advance. Obviously, Trump is doing a really good job so far, but if the nation backslides at all… I certainly wouldn’t say we were heading in a good direction militarily before
this is true.
Our Main Battle Tank dates from the early 1980s, and is the bastard love child of a 1960s project. Our main service rifle is a 1960s Air Force survival rifle with a giggle switch. Our Navy consists of old ships, newly built old ships, and new ships that are going to have to be decommissioned early.
We've been resting on our laurels for quite a while now, bubba.