A report for the Pentagon was released by Arlington, Virginia-based Govini, which in 2019 received a five-year, $400 million contract from the Pentagon to provide data, analysis and information on Department of Defense spending, supply chain and acquisitions.
The report also states that dependence on the Chinese supply chain is present on every major weapons platform, including US aircraft carriers.
It is separately noted that the current dependence on China cannot be resolved even in a decade. Because a “supply chain” at this scale is an entire economy, as it is a network of many firms that buy and sell from each other.
Excuse me, they paid $400 million for someone to tell them how they’re spending their money??
It really is completely made up huh?
The Pentagon had like a trillion dollars completely unaccounted for in their budget vs actual spending so this is chump change
Oh yeah, that was the trillion dollars they announced they “lost” like a day before 9/11 right?
An audit report, released on Feb. 25, 2000, about financial statements for the fiscal year 1999 by the Office of the Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Defense says, “For the accounting entries, $2.3 trillion was not supported by adequate audit trails or sufficient evidence to determine their validity, $2 trillion was not reviewed because of time constraints, and $2.6 trillion were supported.”
So they ACKSHUALLY revealed they could not track 2.3 trillion dollars a year earlier (but yes, Rumsfeld also did have that speech September 10, 2001)
I’ll bet you feel silly
Fact checkers are deeply unserious people.
this is why the US will not go to war with China (that and it is generally cowardly and never attacks anything but crippled failed states)
It certainly shows that US military would grind to a halt very quickly if US did go to war with China. I wouldn’t underestimate the sheer stupidity of the political class in US though. These people are completely divorced from material reality.
They would if they believe they can easily win
Like the Nazis and their opinion of the Red Army
That would be interesting to see happen. I think we’re on course for something like that to happen in the future.
Lmfao how does the military with the most bloated budget in the history of the planet not have base up control of their supply chain? Not only do they not, they rely on their biggest rival who they constantly sabre rattle at for basic components?
I know capitalists can only plan one quarter ahead and will readily sell you the rope to hang them with but it still manages to surprise me a little
Lmfao how does the military with the most bloated budget in the history of the planet not have base up control of their supply chain?
Gunpowder is only manufactured by two private companies in the US lol. Not even government owned, privately run like some of their ammo factories.
Jesus Christ I knew they had privatized everything they could but I didn’t realize they don’t even own the gunpowder production. Is there anything they actually control or is everything contracted out to the lowest bidder?
America goes to war with China.
Every price of American equipment plays “The East is Red” at max volume and self destructs.
I only have time to read this, not deliver line by line dunking, but I encourage comrades to read this article critically as it is a masterclass in neoliberal interests making a correct critique shared by the left (hollowing out domestic production and overreliance on Chinese suppliers has consequences) but wedded to entirely the wrong takeaway and diagnosis. Truly sublime
