Comments on: Many people in this country believe secret weapons are proper public news https://www.isegoria.net/2026/04/many-people-in-this-country-believe-secret-weapons-are-proper-public-news/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 28 May 2026 23:08:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Gaikokumaniakku https://www.isegoria.net/2026/04/many-people-in-this-country-believe-secret-weapons-are-proper-public-news/comment-page-1/#comment-3762257 Gaikokumaniakku Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:26:57 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=54092#comment-3762257 “Vannevar Bush once said that the unity of decision under a totalitarian regime was a recipe for making colossal technological mistakes, whereas the prevalent confusion of decision-making in a democracy was more efficient. He could not have anticipated the tortuous system of procrastination that characterizes modern American defense procurement.”

I used to quote William S. Lind, who used to compare American defense procurement to Soviet defense procurement. Any sufficiently corrupt state-capitalism is indistinguishable from state-communism.

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