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Logistics is effectively the hardest problem and the most expensive one.
A lot of people don't realize that a lot of wasteful spending is effectively required in order to maintain any semblance or level of readiness.
If you are not manufacturing equipment, ammunition, and similar items then you have no one and nowhere to actually manufacture them. A large part of spending is keeping the people, skill sets, facilities, and supply chains running and operating at a minimum required level to support an increase in need. If you don't do this then when you need it, you can't manufacture it anymore, your entire supply chain has to start from scratch.
It's incredibly wasteful but also somewhat necessary.
Yep. Same reasons we can't built a Saturn V any longer. All the supply chains, expertise, etc., are long gone. Imagine keeping all that up to run a B-52 Stratofortress. And yet we do it!
Don't deport it to El Salvador then.
There also has to be redundancy in the supply chain for critical items. That can look like wasteful duplication to someone who doesn't understand how the process works.