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2013-03-07 Government
The Pentagon's Metals Gap
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Posted by BrerRabbit 2013-03-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [336114 views ]  Top

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

#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||   2013-03-07 08:36|| Front Page Top

#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||   2013-03-07 09:05|| Front Page Top

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

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