Originally Posted by Lowslung

Except you know as well as I do that those systems aren’t sexy & that the service chiefs feel a constant need to justify their exorbitant budgets. We’ll be burning F-35 flight hours to turn rubble into smaller rubble, having subs launch tomahawks into empty spots in the desert where someone spotted scud launchers 3 weeks prior, C-17s flying loads of empty pallets from Dafra to Ali al Salem, only to pick up another load of empty pallets headed to the ‘Died, and sending an army of chiefs into theater to make sure people’s socks are regulation before they’re allowed to enter a chow hall in no time at all if we aren’t already. Don’t kid yourself thinking that Haliburton, Northrop Grumman, and Anduril aren’t already gearing up for the windfall and absolutely making perpetual O-faces at the prospect of another forever war in the sandbox. We’re going to spend sickening sums on this thing for years to come. I literally never want to hear another word about fiscal responsibility from anyone, of any stripe, in any position of power.