The United States does not have a "Department of War".
it’s “official” as a permissible executive-branch label, but legally it's still the DoD until congress passes the law.
Re: dept of war - Just gonna leave this here because I find it humorous:
The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed
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Don't shoot down good ideas just because Hegseth is an idiot. US procurement is utterly broken and if they are taking lessons from Ukraine wrt drone operations it is an extremely good thing and will save our ass and many lives in the next war.
They are going to buy off the shelf from whoever bribes them the most.
It's not just that he's a drunk. It's the open corruption, because they are even too stupid to hide it.
Not a single administration in the West is as corrupt as the current day US.
And that's why they are changing the 100s of billion dollar procurement for the US military.
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The ada.gov website has a banner that reads, "Democrats have shut down the government. Department of Justice websites are not currently regularly updated." Trump is the king. Edit: To be clear, I think it's complete and utter garbage. I'm assuming people think I think it's a good thing? It's not a good thing. At all.
And, this page exists: https://www.whitehouse.gov/mysafespace
Jesus fucking Christ.
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> what value does the bureaucratic process add if it's the first thing that gets shitcanned when good results in good time matter? This is like asking what good do reserves do if you spend them down in a crisis. The bureaucracy aims to keep waste and corruption to a minimum during peacetime. In war, the aims change--you're now not only ramping up production, but the penalties for fucking with a war are typically more…
> The bureaucracy aims to keep waste and corruption to a minimum during peacetime. Sorry, but is this sarcasm ? Pity that HN doesn't alow limited emojis to convey intent.
can still use tone indicators though /gen
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> can’t be updated You mean the ICP that's already been updated as part of TR3 to support Block 4 features? https://militaryembedded.com/avionics/computers/f-35-program...
The contract modification that the American taxpayer paid over $7 billion for that wasn't released until 2023? For that you got an update to... >2900 DMIPS, 1MB L2 Cache 512MB DRAM, 256MB Flash 128KB NOVRAM So you got to upgrade from an 80486 level to something the equivalent of an early-2000s Pentium II.
You can quibble about cost or timeline or specs, but that's a different argument than saying something that's factually incorrect.
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Yes, this is absolutely part of it. Even if you had unlimited funding, unlimited trained workers, and a defect free, perfect weapon/product design, the urban planning regime would force you to spend 12 years in consultations before you could put one shovel in the ground to build the factory. Through p it all they would be trying to negotiate the size down and down and down until it finally was a factory the size of a…
If we needed it for war, I suspect everyone involved would be eager to eliminate the restrictions.
You would think so, but I’m not so sure. In Canada, during World War II, the federal government passed the law restricting municipal councils from their ability to prohibit people from renting out rooms in their homes to war workers. Vancouver city council, weighing the pros and cons of Hitler and the risk of tenants, living nearby, try to weasel their way out of it.
https://www.abundanthousingvancouver.com/vancouver_s_rocky_s...
> The response from Vancouver council was swift. Less than a year after the introduction of Order 200, council ordered a bylaw amendment expressly designed to constrain the order as much as possible. The city was still bound by the terms of the order for existing homes, but they could use a legal loophole to ensure that it did not apply to new homes. The city’s chief lawyer Donald McTaggart was incredulous:
The corporation counsel told the committee that the amendment it suggests will be quite legal, but he expressed the opinion that the idea of Order 200 is “being lost sight of.” ... “The government,” he reminded aldermen, “said ‘forget zoning bylaws’ for the sake of getting on with the war.”
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> no different to the guy in the foxhole In peacetime, the American in the foxhole doesn’t die nor does the American or Brit across from him. Everyone merely has simulated results.
What happens if we go to war? We just gonna build a new fast procurement process from scratch when we decide we need it? How do you even decide that for a low intensity conflict? You ever heard the phrase "you fight how you train"? We're training our suppliers to be crap.
Thought about it. Watched half of Hegseth’s speech. You’re right.
How do we fix it? Treat hurricane season as a test run for manufacturing relief shelters?