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Road to 350: What Does the US Navy Do Anyway?

Flash said:
Eh, quite a bit more to it than that. Not sure he deserved a court martial, but he kinda asked for it. And then there's the fact a lot of his assertions didn't quite pan out as he thought, even if the USAF still believes they did.
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Yes, he did basically ask for a court martial to air his grievances. Clearly Mitchell was not a perfect prophet, and the article makes that clear, but he was broadly correct in noting that air power would be critical to winning the next war. The question is, are military leaders blinding themselves to what is coming and more importantly, are they dismissing those who see things differently? I don’t have the answer, but the question is worth asking because it impacts everything from strategy to procurement and force design.
 
Griz882 said:
Yes, he did basically ask for a court martial to air his grievances. Clearly Mitchell was not a perfect prophet, and the article makes that clear, but he was broadly correct in noting that air power would be critical to winning the next war. The question is, are military leaders blinding themselves to what is coming and more importantly, are they dismissing those who see things differently? I don’t have the answer, but the question is worth asking because it impacts everything from strategy to procurement and force design.
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I think the pendulum has swung the other way and we are always jumping on the next big thing in an attempt to revolutionize doctrine.

A few years ago it was biotechnology and now it's unmanned systems and AI. Along the way, people are losing sight of the fact that whatever we build to force-shape must be able to be produced at scale and operated and maintained by a 20 year old with a GED and some military training ... not at all helped by Congress killing the right to repair initiative in this year's NDAA.
 
Spekkio said:
No, you don't get it.

Ironically, Congress's power over spending precludes Trump from executing his big-brain fiscal policy idea to replace income taxes with sales taxes... so he's going to write checks to people and brag about how great it is.

Remember when flattax.org was a thing among grassroots millenials? Now we have it, as implemented by an 80 year old protectionist boomer who doesn't understand government.
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Spekkio said:
Edit: Apparently this was appropriated in the big beautiful bill, but Trump is still doing his "I'm the best ever" to spin it.
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Ok, I"ll take back my questioning of its legality. Congress did their thing, he just lied about where the money came from to make the tarrifs sound like they have any useful effect at all.

Who had reverse money laundering on their 2025 bingo card?
 
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