Yeah honestly, all these “plans” will take so long to implement that by the time anything meaningful could have been done, China will already be far ahead of them. It’s just in general logistics of these things, China already has all the momentum. The US will have to not only build momentum, but try and stop China’s. Unless they intend to just do war and nuke everything I don’t see how they can compete. It obviously seems like they are now trying but I feel like it’s gonna be too late.

I see it how I see their F35 program. “By the time they even get the thing ready, it’ll already be obsolete.”

They pretty much already are. That’s why the defense budget is so high already. It’s a money funnel to defense contractors. Almost every aspect of it is just paying contractors. The military doesn’t do a lot outside of just supplying the cannon fodder. The only thing left to do is privatize actual soldiers. But still, there’s be a capitalist needing to make money off them and soldiers are already paid next to nothing as it is.

So realistically, this move has me stumped.

It already is. The military doesn’t make any of its own shit. It’s all private contractors. The government just writes the overpriced checks. The only thing left is the soldiers and even some of them are from private companies.