The Pentagon’s Overreaction to China’s New Weapon Tests
2nd December 2021
Back in the 1960s, a senior Pentagon official would greet incoming recruits to his department with a cheery announcement: “Welcome to the world of strategic analysis, where we program weapons that don’t work to meet threats that don’t exist.” The recent media excitement over Chinese tests of a hypersonic nuclear weapon which, anonymous Pentagon officials told credulous reporters, overcomes even the “constraints of physics” shows that not much has changed.
The Pentagon’s attitude toward foreign weapons is like the CDC’s attitude toward Covid variants. TIME TO PANIC GIVE US MORE MONEY OR WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!