In a recent pod, @balajis recommended the book “The Kill Chain,” about how America is behind China militarily.
Here’s a quote from the book:
“The problem is not that America is spending too little on defense. The problem is that America is playing a losing game.
Here’s a quote from the book:
“The problem is not that America is spending too little on defense. The problem is that America is playing a losing game.
Over many decades we have built our military around small numbers of large, expensive, exquisite, heavily manned, and hard-to-replace platforms that struggle to close the kill chain as one battle network.
China, meanwhile, has built large numbers of multi-million-dollar weapons to find and attack America's small numbers of exponentially more expensive
military platforms.”
military platforms.”
Source: 
And one of my favorite quotes:
“If those folks only knew how many bombs the US military has dropped using Google Maps,” my friend told me, “their heads would explode.” $GOOG
“If those folks only knew how many bombs the US military has dropped using Google Maps,” my friend told me, “their heads would explode.” $GOOG
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