Ailments

From a friend that has military experience and decades of working with, and, observing government and defense.

What ails the F-35 program is what ails other areas of government:

Some of the common themes in both sets of work include:
The Dominance of Groupthink, at the Institutionalised Level
The Dunning Kruger Effect (DKE)
The Absence of Logic, Reason and Common-Sense
The Differences between Believing and Knowing
Careerism vs Proficiency, Suitability and Effectiveness
The Absence of Accountabilities
The Absence of Transparent, Critical Debate
…and, of course, how modern day Bullshit (a.k.a. "total or partial indifference to what is real") is designed to baffle the brains of the political elite who, in turn, propagate it unchecked and with gay abandon.
As we discussed some years ago, the voices of those who know and understand such things get ignored and drowned out by those who don’t.

Begs the question as to "Why is it so?”.

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