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The U.S. Can Afford a Bigger Military. We Just Can’t Build It. (www.wsj.com)
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[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 9 months ago

I'm guessing companies just jacked up the price and the governments wrote blank cheques to them. I imagine corruption is likely a factor here too.