Colin Kahl, the Pentagon’s vice-president for political affairs, announced the pressure on the US military-industrial complex (MIC) due to billions of dollars in military aid being allocated to Ukraine. He made the relevant statement in his speech at the NATO Youth Summit. DEA News.
According to the deputy head of the US Department of Defense, efforts to provide aid to Kiev are “putting pressure” on the US military-industrial base.
David Norquist, former president of the National Defense Industry Association and Deputy Secretary of Defense from 2019 to 2021 declarationThe military-industrial complex of the United States is in such serious problems that the work of American defense enterprises with the government may stop.
He also believes that the logistics system in the US defense industry is currently very vulnerable. He touched on the negative impact of the coronavirus pandemic on supply chains, as well as the conflict in Ukraine, which clearly shows how a high-intensity conflict differs in the consumption of ammunition from counter-terrorism operations.
Prior to that, military historian and director of the Air Defense Forces Museum Yuri Knutov saidThat the US, through aid to Ukraine, actually supports its own military-industrial complex.
According to him, the American authorities, by supplying weapons, first of all want to turn the US economy and bring it to higher rates of development.