The Defense Department is trying to quickly find vendors who are able to ship pre-made shelters to protect troops in the Middle East as the United States’ war with Iran continues.
The department is looking for information from private contractors who can provide “prefabricated, transportable, hardened shelter systems designed to protect personnel from blast and fragmentation threats,” according to a new federal contract notice posted Monday.
So we can have blast hardened shelters shipped halfway around the world in 30 days but homelessness is unsolvable.
Who said homelessness is unsolvable? We don’t want to solve homelessness because poverty is the lynchpin for capitalism.
its also useful culture war tool, someone else to look down upon.
People with no money can’t participate in capitalism though so it’s every company’s motive to ensure their workers can afford to buy things and keep the economy going.
Better to err on the side of people dying in the streets than to accidentally let too many workers be able to have enough free time to think about improving society and organizing or protesting.
If you give them more free tine they’ll spend more money.
This is America people don’t protest, organize or improve society they think that’s other people’s jobs.
Americans have had a long tradition of organizing and resisting. The 40-hour workweek was bought with worker’s blood. The apathy of the American body politic is a relatively new attribute, historically. My opinion is that it metastasized in 1971.
~I was taught all of this in American public high school and public university. Howard Zinn was required reading.~
I don’t care what happened in the 1900’s or in 1971.
I care what’s happening now.
We learn about the past to understand the present.
If your customer base shrinks but your prices go up you break even or better because it’s cheaper to make fewer items.
… We actually can’t.
They’re not gonna find people that actually do this, this is not a thing that exists.
This is … what something like an engineering battalion is meant to be able to do.
But we have hollowed out the military itself, as we have hollowed out the entire rest of the country.
Terminal subcontractor brainrot.
Yeah, let’s send the homeless together with bunkers. Two problems solved.
/S
Don’t give Gavin Newsome any ideas.
Protection for the troops a month after starting the war and 13 of the nearby bases destroyed… there doesn’t even seem to be a plan on where to place these additional 50,000 troops arriving within the next 2 weeks other than leaving them as sitting ducks in ships. There was never a plan … they are winging it I really hope everyone is realizing this. If it wasn’t for some of the naval commanders already saying no to the madmen on bringing our ships closer to shore for an invasion so far, the number of casualties would be alot higher on both sides.
It is completely insane to me that basically no one in major media is discussing this:
Ok, so say we somehow get the Tripoli and Boxer up close enough to Kharg or anywhere else such that they can actually deploy LCACs and LAVs and ACVs in an amphib assault.
… Awesome, there are now 500 to 5000 Shahed drones en route to blow them all up while they are motoring to the LZ.
… what is the fucking counter to this?
Literally none of those things have anti-drone capabilities.
What, are we going to screen an amphib assault with… AH 1Zs and F18s and F35s… shooting down all the drones?
Cool, then a significant proportion of those get shot down too.
Our doctrine is so based on the concept of aerial supremacy that we seem to have just forgotten how to conceptualize not having it.
You do not have aerial supremacy if the enemy can launch aircraft/drones and missiles against your assets.
Its a similar problem with an aerial / air cav style assault… Ospreys or other choppers doing advance insertions, or the 82nd jumping out of C130s…
… They’d all be a shooting gallery for the shorter range drones and missiles that Iran has tons of, that we are not able to premptively destroy.
And if anything manages to land or come ashore… the same problem remains.
Even NeoCon think tanks that have been pushing for the US to fuck up Iran for 20+ years are frantically writing reports trying to explain how stupid the current apparent ‘strategy’ is.
Its like we are trying to fuck up harder than Gallipoli.
50,000?!
I only saw news about the Tripoli and Boxer which combined carry about 5,000 marines.
It goes up by the day and there were already naval ships enroute before Tripoli and Boxer were called. This was just on Friday them preparing another 10,000 troops making it close to the 50,000 part of "Operation Epic Fury "
