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Older armament production systems are labor intensive; many munitions are practically built by hand: skilled labor factors hugely in finishing shells. Component shortages complicate matters. For a very long time, the U.S. military industrial base has not been geared to the volume of usable weapons, the bread 'n butter of an army's arsena…
Older armament production systems are labor intensive; many munitions are practically built by hand: skilled labor factors hugely in finishing shells. Component shortages complicate matters. For a very long time, the U.S. military industrial base has not been geared to the volume of usable weapons, the bread 'n butter of an army's arsenal [ shells/munitions. ] The military industrial base is structured in a manner that makes such a thing all but impossible: it's a mind-set flaw--a course correction will take a generation, if not longer. Or at all
When a country (cough, cough) owns the "rules based order" you can't imagine anyone would be stupid enough to challenge you. Come to find out...you're "all hat and NO cattle".
Or all olive-drab t-shirt, no legitimacy