Friday NatSec Roundup
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- India getting some much-needed procurement reform. It’s fine and well to handle acquisitions as a jobs, patronage, and industrial policy problem, until your larger, more powerful neighbor decides to get spicy.
- Interesting stuff on the rapid expansion of F-15EX acquisition by the USAF. Essentially, the service has decided that upgraded versions of the original F-15 frame can still provide a pretty lethal fighter that can do a lot of useful jobs. Similar in some ways to what the Navy did with the Super Hornet…
- If anyone wants to win my heart forever, get me one of these: A now withdrawn V-22 Osprey Lego Technic set.
- Some interesting sources on Soviet military gaming…
- The US is expanding and upgrading its military presence on Wake Island.
- Who knew that nasty racism would make American democracy less appealing?