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The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed

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285 points ridruejo | 4 comments | 11 Nov 25 14:34 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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chiph ◴[11 Nov 25 21:14 UTC] No.45892948[source]▶
> Design For Rapid Scale In a Crisis

One of the things that I think Anduril (Palmer Luckey and other founders) is doing right is designing for manufacturability. The invasion of Ukraine has shown that future conflicts will use up weapons at a very high pace. And that the US capability to build them at the rate needed to sustain conflict isn't there anymore. But that one thing that could help is making them easier to build. (the decline of US manufacturing is a related but separate topic)

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gyulai ◴[12 Nov 25 08:32 UTC] No.45897736[source]▶
> sustain conflict

...this turn of phrase in relation to goal-setting really makes you think twice.

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1. ACCount37 ◴[12 Nov 25 09:04 UTC] No.45897952[source]▶
Welcome to war. If you can't sustain a conflict, you will lose to anyone who can.
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2. gyulai ◴[12 Nov 25 09:24 UTC] No.45898094[source]▶
There's no need to welcome me to war. I'm not in one, despite the fact that the powers that be are hellbent on getting me (and everyone else) into one.
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3. ACCount37 ◴[12 Nov 25 10:09 UTC] No.45898381[source]▶
Oh, yes. That's exactly how it works. No one would ask you "do you want to get into a war"? Ukraine didn't want to get into a war. Turns out it wasn't their call to make!

Least you can do is be prepared. If a hostile country believes "oh, they can't handle a war, it's going to be so easy", the risk of that country trying shit goes up. And if you really can't, the war would be more devastating than if you can.

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4. wartywhoa23 ◴[12 Nov 25 18:23 UTC] No.45903787{3}[source]▶
The truth is that countries can't want anything, be hostile, or have any other personal trait simply because countries are not animate entities but rather a huge number of absolutely different people with different goals, and most of them would just love to mind their own business and don't want to kill and die in the name of some scum calling itself government.

Speaking of war as something inevitable, something unconditionally built in into human nature, and telling people who want peace to prepare, as in Orwell's "war is peace", simply reinforces the narratives of said scum and spins this morbid wheel up into total destruction.