Daniel Driscoll: “The United States army for 30, 40 years has had terrible…”

“And so under President Trump, we're spending a trillion dollars on defense and reinvigorating. The department, smartly spending more, and we're spending it more smartly, unequivocally. So The United States army for 30, 40 years has had terrible outcomes because what we essentially did is we would guess what we would need. We would create these insane requirements documents like the Colt 1911 pistol. So it was. A pistol was created almost 100 years ago with half a page of requirements, and it lasted the army, like 80 years.” (03:46–03:54)

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