Posted on 05/27/2017 8:51:08 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
To paraphrase Rumsfeld: You go to war with the Navy you have. The Bismarck was the most dangerous ship on the seven seas. They had to sink it.
The flaw was known before the start of hostilities. You don’t think it would have made sense to schedule the repairs of fatal flaws on capital assets beforehand?
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