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The officer replied that he didn’t do that sort of analysis. JSTPS, he went on, was prohibited from setting requirements or analyzing whether a certain kind of attack, with a certain number of weapons, would be militarily effective. When asked what the JSTPS actually did, the officer explained that they take all the weapons that are assigned to SAC and aim them at all the targets on the list. [...] It turned out that the war plan was based on supply, not demand — on how many weapons SAC happened to have, not on how many were needed.> However, the Republican hawks in Congress rolled out a list of all-new weapons and calculated that the package would cost $1.3 trillion over the next 30 years. (The estimate has since been revised to $2 trillion.)
In case you ever had any doubt the military-industrial complex was real.