You Have To Hear What Keeps The Head Of U.S. Strategic Command Up At Night
It's not Kim Jong Un or Vladimir Putin.
Tyler Rogoway
Sep 22, 2017 5:17 PM EDT
Out of all the presentations and panels at this year's Air Force Association convention, one speaker in particular had a most important, brave, and sobering message. A message that goes against the "company man" attitude we seem to find in many of the military's top brass, and one that deals with something we here at The War Zone have been talking about for a long, long time. Instead of worrying about Kim Jong Un's missiles or Putin's huge nuclear arsenal, what keeps the head of Strategic Command, General John Hyten, up at night is the cold hard fact that America's defense industrial complex has lost the ability to "go fast."
Hyten's remarks on the topic begin at 25:48, if the player doesn't take you there automatically when you push play:
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