Pentagon exposes limitations through Ukraine conflict
For decades, the Pentagon has resisted calls from military reformers who have insisted on shifting investment in expensive and vulnerable military equipment to drones.
For decades, US military reformers have been urging the Pentagon to stop buying extremely expensive but vulnerable aircraft carriers and fighter jets and instead focus on acquiring large numbers of cheap drones. But according to The Washington Post, no one seems to be listening to those suggestions.
"Addiction is hard to break. So the military continues to follow the old flow, spending more and more money on vulnerable platforms that can only survive for a few minutes in a war with China" - Washington Post commented.
According to the Washington Post, the situation in the US began to change only after it "absorbed" the brutal lessons from the Ukraine conflict, where drones exposed the vulnerability of conventional weapons.
"The Pentagon has tried for half a century to prevent radical change. Aircraft carriers, bombers, tanks and fighter jets were built to last forever, but only in a cozy world with no peer competitors. If so, America has done it," the Washington Post said.
However, the newspaper said that the US Department of Defense is currently facing the need for reform and revolution, which is "long overdue"./.
