Self-sabotage. The words "Never Interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake." comes to mind.
this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2025
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wtf, so you'll have to call contractors on the battlefield or what?
That's more or less what happened with the littoral combat ships. It's like the McDonald's ice cream machine model of weapons system design.
The other wild things is that navies traditionally wildly overstaff their ships so they can do all their repairs themselves and fast. But when they switched to this contractor model they didn't fully unload the staff, so they had a bunch of repair technicians on board who couldn't do anything.
so they had a bunch of repair technicians on board who couldn't do anything.
can I apply for this position but full remote?
No, here is usually some redundancy designed in - by having 3 or 4 units, so if one fails there is a backup. But only the OEM is allowed to maintain the kit under contract. And surprise surprise, the terms of the repair contract usually involve insane rates for contractors and spare parts. Which the OEM withholds to extort even more.
The headline should be "...deliberately sabotaging combat effectiveness." Allowing corporations to cash in is really fucking bad, but it still manages to not be the worst part about this!
Soon on the battlefield: "Sorry, the tank's turret and armaments are now disabled because the system detected that the engine's coolant level is running low. Please return the tank to our approved service centres located on the other side of the world to have its entire coolant system replaced by our qualified technicians at exorbitant prices. Turnaround time: 6 months."
Someone should make a version of Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers but in an alternate reality where all their gear is enshittified.
"Quietly"
No, like in basically all governments not (yet) fully in authoritarian media control mode it's rarely the legislative branch doing some things more silent than others (and they are usually too stuck in procedures even if they tried...) but the media failing to properly report some things.
Oh, great news for any country the US is threatening to invade. Thank you!
FFS