Military Waste

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Joshua O. Reno. Military Waste
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MILITARY WASTE
THE UNEXPECTED CONSEQUENCES OF PERMANENT WAR READINESS
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The Seahawk helicopter that Simon worked the most on was intended for the Navy for purposes of doing search and rescue. And this could include the open water or downed pilots in Afghanistan, where all components needed to work to guarantee both safety and mission success (and, by extension, the presumed public goods associated with military strength).
People have been building these parts for fifty years, similar parts. And you do stress tests: for every part it has to go through an air-worthiness test and an environmental test. Environmental test puts it through cycles of heat and cold and banging around and dropping and being exploded.
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