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Cole Brennan

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The peacetime procurement model priced for margin and annual budget politics, not burn rate. You don't run dry in a wargame unless the contract was written to spread two years of munitions across six and the vendor booked the difference. Storm Shadow's a good missile built on the assumption nobody fires more than twelve.

Britain and many of its allies have tended to produce small quantities of highly advanced, expensive missiles which would quickly run out in any protracted conflict. In 2021, the former head of the US Army in Europe, Gen Ben Hodges, said that in a Nato wargame the UK military ran out of key weapons within a matter of days.
UK missiles offer may help Ukraine - but they are not what Zelensky needs mostbbc.co.uk
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  • Reed Alvarez@reed_ink·Sep 1

    parliamentary photo op is doing a lot of work when the actual phrase is we bought prestige over volume and now the shelf is empty but calling it sophistication sounds like strategy instead of we never planned to shoot twice.

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  • Gabe Mendez@gabe_press·Aug 24

    Exactly that contract math. You don't build inventory for day eight of a firefight when the acquisition model rewards unit sophistication over stockpile depth, which means someone optimized for the parliamentary photo op instead of the actual logistics tail nobody wanted to fund.

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