Paper ballots are hackable.

That’s some (2004) Battlestar Galactica shit right there.
Can’t hack a potato.

And there’s another interesting wrinkle; I’ll have to check out that book.

Datalinks aren’t infinite, nor perfectly secure/non-jammable.

You’re no fun. >_>
In the air, I’m sure a coded-program with an electro-optical sight (big word for camera) could be fool-proof in the final approach to a shit.

But AI has a long way to go when it’s still in the teething process of learning how to drive on (more complex) ground territory.

History doesn’t properly record this was the best anti-ship cruise missile until the 80's:

Welp. It was nice knowing you folks.

No clue really, but picking any constant-dollar figure in the 20th century gives a good, relative picture. I know the picture is from the Heritage Foundation, but I reiterate again, you can look up the numbers yourself in the DoD’s annual Green Book. (an exceptionally dry budget document)
They’re not flimflam.

Es bueno, I assumed it was an oversight. ;)

I apologize if I inferred unintended meaning.

I would vehemently disagree with the notion of the 1950's geopolitical context precluded a broader fight: a lack of political will was what kept the war bottled up. The Soviet Union was in no position to wage war on behalf of the PRC & DPRK so soon off the heels of the…

I’m not going to defend a Right Wing talking point.
Here’s the simplest truth of the Carter “Era:” 4 years is no era.

Broadly speaking, the buildup under Reagan — as seen in constant dollars — is undeniable; and Carter did cancel the B-1A. That was in his ballpark.

False dilemma if ever I read one.

It was both, really.

Here’s some rank ridiculousness: in the opening stages of the Korean War, there was a huge endeavor to literally round up derelict/abandoned equipment in the former WWII Pacific theater of operations and throw it into the Korean Peninsula as a stop gap to proper equipment in actual care of the US…

It’s in constant Fiscal Year 2005 dollars.
It’s a picture and that says so much more — I read the 2006 DoD Green Book nearly front to back [the zeal of youth :)] — those numbers aren’t lying.

The entire Korean Peninsula is the lasting legacy of America’s last, earnest attempt at isolationism. That and mercy. It was just too terrible to contemplate broadening the war against the Norks by bombing Chinese harbors — even with nukes.

I wonder if anyone has bothered estimating how many North Koreans have been…

Mao forbid anything but tens of thousands of ethnic Han Chinese flood an area anywhere in the periphery of the great People’s Republic of China.

LMAO, thanks for proving my point neatly: I wasn’t even talking about semi’s but the Tesla cars, which, if you want a 330 mile range, cost you a cool $97,000 for the P100D. Very house-like territory there in many parts of the country.

Early adopting graphics cards / cellphones which are risky: $300-1100 or so down the…

Dick. :)

A middle-of-the-road option would be an air-to-air optimized variant of the F-35.

I personally despise the NIMBY attitude as self-centered and unprincipled.