Originally Posted by
melmothtw
The USAF could not build the full run of the original C-17 buy(200+) but they didn't cancel the program and did recover from the low point of 80 something to get more than 100.
- The USAF received 223 C-17s.
Whoops, my data was wrong, thank you and Ken for correcting me. I'll let the error stand, and am not sure who was being addressed in the response about the Mil Indus complex ... since that isn't what I was talking about.
The maintenance of the industrial base is a strategic imperative, and was still one while I was serving. (what that is, and at what level is a long running issue of policy and strategy both).
That wasn't what Eisenhower was on about in infamous his speech to Congress ... who are the third (and critical) leg of that particular triad.