I’m actually not sure that the situation in Europe is much better. I’ve seen Europeans arms production described as artisanal because it’s done in small batches by a whole bunch of different companies, and there’s pretty much no standardization in place.
That points to inefficiency, incompetence. It’s not enough to get to USA levels of poor-value. I haven’t seen evidence of the same scale of MIC corruption in European NATO countries.
I’m actually not sure that the situation in Europe is much better. I’ve seen Europeans arms production described as artisanal because it’s done in small batches by a whole bunch of different companies, and there’s pretty much no standardization in place.
That points to inefficiency, incompetence. It’s not enough to get to USA levels of poor-value. I haven’t seen evidence of the same scale of MIC corruption in European NATO countries.
For sure, I imagine the MIC in the US is more corrupt just because the scale of it is so much bigger.