Pentagon Demands a Faster War Machine

The Pentagon is pushing weapons makers to make weapons faster. Why would it need to do that if, as President Trump says, the U.S. has “massive amounts of ‘munitions’” and anyone who says otherwise should be “hunted down” and jailed? The Washington Post reports that “Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg wrote to industry leaders on Wednesday, saying they had no more than 21 days to submit plans to ‘drive significantly faster, more aggressive delivery schedules and/or increased production for critical capabilities,’ according to [a] memo.” “Years-long development cycles are not acceptable,” the memo said. “We must dramatically accelerate our program schedules and expand our production capacity...

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