The US Military has the best weapon systems in the world, well ahead of any other nation, and yet, it seems we are not considering the future, because we don't have enough of them. We must not let military superiority slip from our hands. Our government's number one job is to protect the American People - but if they don't have the quantity of weapons to do that - they won't be able to when we need it most.
There was a decent article on this in Aviation Week and Space Technology on December 3, 2010 by Amy Butler titled; "Must Value Quantities: Cartwright" where a US general warned that all this fancy equipment that the US military has is great, but we need quantity as well. Indeed, he is right "Cartwright" to be exact - you see, in WWII it was quantities and industrial capability that won the war for us Americans.
Yet, today our industrial base has severely dwindled. Today we don't have the capacity we need to win a war, so we need massive quantity of weapons, not just the most advanced weapons, which obviously we need that too. An overwhelming force of swarms, and surprise blitzes, and a few satellite outages, EMP attacks, and we are going to be back to rocks, arrows, shields, swords. We need quantity too.
The Germans had superior weapons; planes, tanks, battleships, U-boats, rockets, and you name it. But we had massive industrial capacity, and more (but inferior) tanks, planes, and weapons. Consider China and its massive industrial base now, and the US and its superior weapons. You know, I'd just as soon be on the winning team when all heck breaks lose. But to do that, we need quantity too, not just the best and most advanced weapons - we need lots of weapons.
Indeed, I hope others like General Cartwright will also speak up. Let's not put the horse before the cart, because he's right. Listen to what this general is saying. We should learn and study history not be doomed to repeat. Please consider all this.
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 22,000 articles was a lot of work - because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off..
