tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post6767547258575339445..comments2024-03-27T20:37:08.065+01:00Comments on Defence and Freedom: Patterns of propaganda for higher military spendingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-21547076750020293522018-04-29T21:44:42.520+02:002018-04-29T21:44:42.520+02:00'Just in time' logistics has been assessed...'Just in time' logistics has been assessed to be the most cost efficient way for commercial entities to run their supply chains. The fact that this leaves no 'waste' to provide resiliency on a national level is not something that is considered or missed.<br /><br />This system is becoming more 'efficient' as international shipping becomes more reliable and stock management/forecasting controlled by big data and ai is increasingly employed. The counter, that nations will become decreasingly resilient also follows.<br /><br />Your suggestion would be resisted by those who can earn profit by controlling or creating scarcity, even those who would benefit by the 'blank cheque' of in war spending. See the vicious arguementation against the strategic petroleum reserve in america for evidence of this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-81861366584884118602018-04-29T16:03:03.627+02:002018-04-29T16:03:03.627+02:00Economic science uses marginal rate of return as t...Economic science uses marginal rate of return as the key variable to determine resource allocation. In theory, you should strive to get about the same return for every last coin spent on anything.<br /><br />Politicians don't appear to even only try to implement this.<br />For example, counter-climate change policies should have one common rate of willingness to spend per climate effect unit (kg CO2 emission equivalent). They have hundreds of programs instead that are not compared and do not follow a common unit of measurement.<br /><br />It would be very much possible to debate rationally how to allocate resources between military, medical research, counter-climate change et cetera if one we could agree on metrics and principles that research discovered generations ago already.S Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03359796414832859686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-61877576518167865282018-04-29T13:01:52.746+02:002018-04-29T13:01:52.746+02:00This comment has been removed by the author.KRThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10725091310284220350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-58240963205200859772018-04-28T14:46:46.980+02:002018-04-28T14:46:46.980+02:00Fighting at home is cheaper than expeditionary war...Fighting at home is cheaper than expeditionary warfare.<br /><br />Defence is cheaper than attack.<br /><br />Software solutions (training) will see more capability per unit spend than hardware solutions.<br /><br />Growing equipment numbers before growing your NCO core produces a hollow force (LCS, 2003 naval training that consisted of a set of CDs.)<br /><br />I'd love to have an ammunition count per weapon system. How many torpedos does each navy have? How many AAM, ASM? R&D a platform, half build it, never aquire a sufficient deterent warstock of ammo then demand the country R&D a new platform.<br /><br />From a future perspective the dynamic you talk about is useful. The current power will fail, and it will be obvious why it happened.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com