I think that the real constraint to US military production would be the shortage / near absence of the aforementioned contractors. While the left had been fretting about the nefarious powers of the US Military-Industrial Complex (MIC), it all but ceased to exist. In the early to mid-nineties following the collapse of the USSR and end of …
I think that the real constraint to US military production would be the shortage / near absence of the aforementioned contractors. While the left had been fretting about the nefarious powers of the US Military-Industrial Complex (MIC), it all but ceased to exist. In the early to mid-nineties following the collapse of the USSR and end of the Cold War, there was a virtual slaughter of military contractors, and those who survived had to consolidate and streamline their business models with all sorts of economies, efficiencies, etc. This was all precipitated by the event known as the "Last Supper" which took place in 1993. OSINT analyst and a retired senior NCO Ryan McBeth has a pretty good rendition of the topic of the US MIC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2gIId1dpDs As the result, the MIC retained some pretty unique capabilities, but it is completely out of Schlitz when it comes to capacity. Thus, we ended up with military-industrial bonsai tree of sorts.
I think that the real constraint to US military production would be the shortage / near absence of the aforementioned contractors. While the left had been fretting about the nefarious powers of the US Military-Industrial Complex (MIC), it all but ceased to exist. In the early to mid-nineties following the collapse of the USSR and end of the Cold War, there was a virtual slaughter of military contractors, and those who survived had to consolidate and streamline their business models with all sorts of economies, efficiencies, etc. This was all precipitated by the event known as the "Last Supper" which took place in 1993. OSINT analyst and a retired senior NCO Ryan McBeth has a pretty good rendition of the topic of the US MIC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2gIId1dpDs As the result, the MIC retained some pretty unique capabilities, but it is completely out of Schlitz when it comes to capacity. Thus, we ended up with military-industrial bonsai tree of sorts.