And I've been, in fact, I have a piece of legislation going into this NDA specifically that will give priority to contracting systems that are focused on quantity. So we love our exquisite … Our defense industrial base...looks eerily like what the German military industrial complex looked like in 1938, 39, 40, 41. … advanced platforms that were very expensive and not easy to replace. And every German tank and German plane and German U boat and German gun was better than everything we had at the beginning of the war. (16:17–16:30)
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Asserts that the current U.S. defense industrial base resembles the German military industrial complex of the late 1930s and early 1940s.
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