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by causality05 hours ago |
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upvoteby AlexCoventry31 minutes ago|
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> Change is not going to happen until it's forced.

Yes, Pearl Harbor was a known vulnerability, prior to the Japanese attack. The US just wasn't ready to take airpower seriously, at that point.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/k5okm8/why_d...

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upvoteby kasey_junk5 hours ago|
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Isn’t the American military logistics the most decentralized supply chain in the world? Famously (perhaps apocryphal) _every congressional district_ has jobs in the military logistics supply chain.
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upvoteby causality04 hours ago|
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It would be decentralized if the same things were being built in different places. The way US government manufacturing is set up is more like taking all your organs out, sticking each of them in a separate room, and piping the blood back and forth. Every item has a mile-long supply chain and attacking any part of it shuts the whole thing down.
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upvoteby Tostino1 hours ago|
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Decentralization doesn't matter at all if you still have single points of failure everywhere.
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upvoteby snowpid3 hours ago|
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sorry, but the European defence is more decentralised.
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upvoteby xp844 hours ago|
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Why are defense contractors not better investments, then?

https://youtu.be/C2gIId1dpDs

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upvoteby ptmcc2 hours ago|
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They are largely congressional jobs programs, not traditional business investments
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upvoteby bflesch4 hours ago|
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I agree with your point but it's incredibly naive to identify "the MBAs" as scapegoat for this problem.

We're living in times where an evangelical POTUS dislikes the pope, oligarchs talk about the "antichrist", wars are started with reference to "armageddon" [1] to distract from old money power brokers such as Epstein who has esotheric Kaballah symbols on his office walls [2 @14min42sec].

The authoritarians are concluding the democratic experiment because they can't hide their heritage any longer. All hail the King.

[1] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/troops-being-told-to-prepare-...

[2] https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/never-seen-video-shows-eps...

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