When Rome got to the point where it was so corrupt and so bone idle as to outsource even the military, the empire was marked for death.
The entity that had the best inventors and mechanics of that age elevated the concept of the person to the degree that only management was worthy of a Roman.
An MBA may not admire the distinction between a Roman Legion and a Germanic Legion with Roman officers, but History has told the result of that misunderstanding.
If we allow ourselves to be directed by our governors to create a world where real strategic goods are no longer produced within our boundaries, we will suffer the results of the sin of those who ignore the lessons of History.
In a previous war we were not better than our competitors in a tactical sense, but we had the strategic resources to outmanufacture them.
A Panzer Tank may be better than a Sherman - but a Panzer Tank can never be better than twenty Shermans.
When we went to Midway we risked our entire fleet, but we replaced that fleet by one and one half times over the course of the next year and a half.
The History of America in modern warfare is written in our ability to outmanufacture anyone on earth.
And we are giving that away.
We need to make things in order to survive.
Regards,
Tom Watson
tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)