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The Pentagon's Metals Gap
2013-03-07
Posted by:BrerRabbit

#4  Disarmament-by-deindustrialization.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2013-03-07 21:56  

#3  In a previous life, many of our DOD contracts had exclusions of sources, making the materials cost even higher, and we had to have material certs showing origin and and all processing steps.
Posted by: USN,ret   2013-03-07 09:05  

#2  This "single-point of failure" in Pentagon parlance is beyond the purview of the newly-released report, but it is no less a clear and present danger.

This should be no challenge for an administration that embraces and rewards multiple points of failure.

Posted by: Besoeker   2013-03-07 08:36  

#1  Who needs metals when you can print the $ to buy 'em....? /sarc
Posted by: Uncle Phester   2013-03-07 08:31  

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