Christopher Kirchhoff: belief

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…How well do they do procurement, in your opinion? You look at it, you think, “Wow, that’s impressive.” Or you think, “Eh, they’re doing well for other reasons, but their procurement is screwed up like ours.” Well, I think any large public institution or large government institution, [laughs] whether you’re communist or capitalist, is going to have inefficiencies in it. I think the Chinese have plenty of inefficiencies, but I think what’s different is, they have observed our military very carefully, really, ever since the First Gulf War, when the precision strike complex, as it’s called, really became debuted on the global stage. The whole world saw us on CNN, dropping bombs down chimneys. Today, similarly, the entire complex of Chinese universities that study national security and military institutes are looking very closely at Ukraine. By the time the book was published, I think we had caught something like 120 academic papers being published in the Chinese literature about the Ukraine war, very clearly seeing the decisive use of Starlink, calling for a Chinese version of Starlink, calling for Chinese kinetic and nonkinetic means of jamming low-earth-orbit space technology. What’s different about their procurement system is, however good or bad it is, it’s geared at producing the exact kind of technology that will find the chinks in our own armor and could, if we have to go to war in a Taiwan scenario, in another scenario, prove to be a potentially catastrophic awakening to the US military. Is Unit X a dog-friendly office? Highly important question.…

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