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Nine years ago, the Navy set out to build a new guided
\n missile for its 21st-century ships. Fiascoes followed. In a test firing,
\n the missile melted its on-board guidance system. "Incredibly," an
\n Army review said, "the Navy ruled the test a success."<\/p>\n
Recently, the Navy rewrote the contract and put out another one, with little
\n to show for the money it already spent. The bill has come to almost $400
\n million, five times the original budget.<\/p>\n
Such stories may seem old hat. But after years of failing to control cost
\n overruns, the most powerful officials at the Pentagon are becoming increasingly
\n alarmed that the machinery for building weapons is breaking down under
\n its own weight.<\/p>\n
Yet another example of asymmetrical Doesn’t the accompanying Navy artist rendering of from the Nine years ago, the Navy set out to build a new guided missile for its 21st-century ships. Fiascoes followed. In a test firing, the missile melted its on-board guidance system. "Incredibly," an Army review said, "the Navy ruled the test … Continue reading
\n warfare<\/a>. We
\n have become so enamored of technology, so dependent on the methods and
\n models of modern manufacturing state, and so determined to create an
\n antiseptic virtual warfare where we can obliterate any enemy with negligent
\n risk to our own troops that our weapons systems design and procurement
\n are so divorced from reality as to be dysfunctional. To the ultimate
\n detriment of those very American
\n boys and girls<\/a> the hi-tech gadgets are
\n supposed to protect in the first place, not mention you and we, who are
\n footing the bill.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n the melted missile look like something out of a comic book or sci-fi
\n movie? Unfortunately,
\n that’s about as close to functionality as it ever got. In the battle
\n of suicide bombers and Improvised Explosive Devices vs. Really Cool
\n Vaporware, we know where our money is. Unfortunately, we paid our taxes this year already…<\/em><\/p>\n
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