Excellent thread with some salient points.
Pentagon acquisition chief Bill LaPlante says Ukraine has helped him understand what really matters. "What really matters is production."
"We as a country did our best to not do production," LaPlante said. "We all accepted that just in time was the way to go," LaPlante says.
This is why we have a valley of death because we don't want to do production….
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