I'm a doddering old man, but I'm not in charge. I just noted that yesterday the US marines were buying huge WWII amphibious landing ships, and today they might buy this.
Have they actually bought one? Nope. And the air force was buying 64 Tomahawks a year, while buying fancier and fancier jets that can be knocked down by a 2-buck Stinger. The army is just the army.
Canada is just the same. Big things are sexy, with lots of schmoozing parties. Neat.
ps the nice thing about the modern world is that it is now heavily weighted against invasion, or taking territory. Military balances always swing from offence to defense, big to little. We are safe from having anxiety about China, but we can't buy from them any more because of the jet fuel doubling.
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