Jonathan V. Last
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first heard Dec 2024
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Just before April, I think he had said the cost of the war so far had been $25 billion.
So this is, I mean, the costs are moving pretty quickly upwards, and there are all sorts of problems that happen elsewhere in the world when you start funneling just munitions and whatnot.
You know, you're robbing from Peter to pay Paul, right?
You're taking munitions that should be based in other places away to push into the region.
Do you think that Congress will actually exercise some oversight here?
Or is this basically just the theater that the administration has to go through in order to continue waging war?
Because this is, I mean, this is a genuine question to me.
Like, can Congress shut this down or no?
No, that is absolutely true.
I wrote about that a few weeks ago.
And the extent to which this war has exposed U.S.
military doctrine as not having evolved fast enough.
And, you know, Iran is not a first-ranked drone power.
They're a second- or third-ranked drone power.
But clearly, I mean, the revolution of drones is an economic revolution, right?
It is how do you get...
smart guided munitions without the platform costs to deliver them.
And the drone takes that and instead of having to develop a platform like a fifth generation fighter or a aircraft carrier or something like that, you can do it with these little things that you just take off because a guy launches it from a field.
One of your maxims that I think about nearly every day is that the Trump administration has many secrets, but no mysteries.
Yes.
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