Lean, JIT and other buzzwords did this. Good.
If the Yemenis succeed in dragging the US into another losing war, things will be very interesting if China ever decided to take back Taiwan.
Disagree. Lean and JIT are designed to meet dynamic demand at high quality with low waste. US manufacturing never embraced Deming’s work and that’s why the US auto industry lost to the Japanese auto industry.
The US, especially the military, does not operate on lean nor JIT. They overproduce useless shit using Taylorist planning, they do not optimize production and thus cannot sustain producing critical but low-profit things - like protective gear - and they exhibit every single possible kind of waste described by the Lean/JIT regime.
Lean and JIT share some of the blame for US medical care woes, because they don’t account for the massive demand surges that characterize viral exponential growth, something that doesn’t really exist in the demand for automobiles and similar commodities.
The fact that no one is producing spare parts is all the evidence you need that Lean and JIT aren’t anywhere near this problem.
It’s impressive to see just how dilapidated the US military is. Is it a paper tiger? I don’t think so, they can still do a lot of damage. It’s getting more evident, however, that in a real conflict they’d fight for maybe a month before being completely out of men, ammo and tanks.
But it is still the most successful American bomber after World War II.
It’s normal for long range bomber aircraft to be that old. The Tu-95 is even older, and is still in active service. The age isn’t really the concerning part of this, it’s mostly how dilapidated the force is.
the age is mentioned because “this plane is older than my dad and still failed the spare parts check”
I support the western tools of genocide becoming more and more outdated, overpriced, haphazard, and incompetent… hopefully it all comes to an explosive, as one-sided as possible of an end for the empire while we’re at it as well, since they’re clearly chomping at the bit for WW3.
A good future for humanity would maybe see the US sectioned off into various zones of UN control, never to reunite again, never to terrorize the world again, with no bastion left for the white supremacists and imperialists to ever return to power.
