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Totally normal the dept of war (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/antitrumpalliance@lemmy.world
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[–] 12 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Fair enough. I just didn't think the military was so fragile that a single election could turn it from the world police into the keystone kops.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Entropy, my guy. It applies to everything, not just physics. Breaking things is and always will be vastly easier than building them up.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago

    Maybe people engaging in such bravado laden claims without knowing the reality along with anyone reading this who didn't know beforehand how fragile complex systems can be, even the US military - maybe everyone will think twice before letting a corrupt evil moron get elected just to "shake things up".

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Failure of the entire system is almost always is always at critical bottlenecks. Avoiding these bottlenecks is a key component of military and economic competency.

    The U.S. military and economy has been declining for decades. Why? Consolidation of companies into mega-corporations. Less competition = more cost for less results. Less players also means more potential bottlenecks in the system.

    It's been being held together by a shoestring for decades now. It's getting more and more unstable as time goes by. This is where gross incompetence at the leadership level can sink not just an industry but an entire nation.

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