Volume 2, Issue 3

CONTENTS — ART. 1. WWIII — ART. 2. U∴A∴ symposium

Article 1 — SPECIAL WWIII COVERAGE

U.S. faces existential threat from People’s Republic of China

Defense Dep’t burns billions on war toys

By Antarah Crawley

WASHINGTON, DC — On 15 February 2023, The Armed Services Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives (House) convened a hearing re: “Outpacing China: Expediting the Fielding of Innovation” at 10:00 a.m. in Hearing Room 2118 Rayburn House Office Building.

The witnesses included The Honorable William LaPlante, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment for the U.S. Department of Defense, The Honorable Heidi Shyu, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering for the U.S. Department of Defense, and Mr. Doug Beck, Director of the Defense Innovation Unit of the U.S. Department of Defense.  Mr. Rogers (R) of Alabama, Chairman, and Adam Smith (D) of Washington, Ranking Member, presided.  Mr. Crawley (AM) of United Scribes and Court Reporters United reported on behalf of the House Clerk’s Office of Official Reporters.

Dr. LaPlante represented the Defense Department’s Acquisition Sustainment Workforce, “all the folks out there working every day to deliver capability and scale.”

He stated, “[R]eminder, we are essentially at a wartime footing right now in several of the things we’re doing, so it’s a full time endeavor,” referring to the fielding of innovations such as hypersonic missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). He further stated that the Department is “implementing national defense strategy […] which has the pacing threat as being China but […] developments with Russia over the last few months have been very very concerning.”

Later in the hearing Dr. LaPlante stated “I have been around the nuclear enterprise for 40 years, and I’ll tell you the situation today from the threat perspective, it’s not good.  It’s not good, I’ll just say that.”

Mr. Courtney (D) of Connecticut remarked, “We really have to go back and look at what’s happened to the industrial base.  Over at the Navy office that’s working on the submarine program, they did an analysis that at the end of the Cold War 36% of the U.S. economy was employed in the manufacturing sector. Today that’s 11%.”

In response to the Congressman, Dr. LaPlante remarked, “I’ve been thinking a lot about this and going back and reading World War II books and books about the early Cold War.”

Mr. Kelly (R) of Mississippi remarked, “China’s naval fleet is now the world’s largest, expected to grow significantly by 2030, while the U.S. Navy faces fleet reductions.”

Mr. Deluzio (D) of Pennsylvania discussed the “National Defense Industrial Strategy and our defense industrial base. The strategy in the report emphasizes a pretty uncomfortable reality […] Over the last three decades, in everything from shipbuilding to micro electronics, The People’s Republic of China has grown industrial capacity that vastly exceeds not only ours in the United States, but coupled with our allies in Europe and Asia for instance.  I think why that’s happened is pretty obvious: the consolidation of industry, both defense and non-defense, shipping good American jobs overseas while underinvesting in our own industrial power, and letting our adversaries skirt trade rules and other nefarious actions.”  

The Congressman went on to discuss the “absurd consolidation in the defense industry,” stating, “we went from 51 aerospace and prime defense contractors to five in the last thirty years.  We’ve seen massive outsourcing, shipping those jobs overseas.  The state of competition in the defense industrial base, your predecessors report, says this, consolidations that reduce required capability and capacity in the depth of competition would have serious consequences for national security.”

Mr. Luttrell (R) of Texas remarked, “we’re talking about hypersonic capabilities, we’re talking about anti-drone capabilities, we’re talking about the war in Ukraine and the industrial footprint and how we’re trying to increase and build capabilities for submarines and ships and then we’re trying to increase our output of weapons systems that we’re shipping overseas.”

On numerous occasions, the Chairman solicited language to be incorporated into the pending appropriations bill directly from the Defense Department officials.

This outlet finds it very lamentable that the credit of the good people of the United States of America is being leveraged to develop, purchase, and supply munitions, vessels, bombs, satellites, and other instruments of war to nations abroad, gearing them up to sustain an array of regional conflicts, effectively financing the nascent Third World War.  The people of the United States should not be obligated for the cost of wars of which they do not approve and to which they do not consent, and the Congress should be held accountable to the people for making such unconscionable appropriations, further eroding the government’s $34 trillion deficit. Due to the mismanagement of these warmongers and banksters, we the people should move the government to file bankruptcy. It is only the London banksters who ultimately benefit from such appropriations and warmongering anyway.

And it this outlet further asserts that it would benefit the people of all nations to establish in law and appropriate funding toward a United States Department of Peace and Friendship as war looms on the horizon of the western world — and the middle world and the eastern world — as society teeters on the brink of destruction — and that rough beast slouches toward Babylon to be born.

Article 2

N∴S∴ to hold U∴A∴ symposium on Islam and Christianity

Azra Kulic keynote speaker

By Antarah Crawley

NACOTCHTANK, OD — NOVUS SYLLABUS L.L.C. (N∴S∴) hereby schedules a special meeting of the Universitas Autodidactus (U∴A∴), Beth Midrash, 153d CORPS, in the nature of a:

Symposium
on
Christ and Islam

This symposium is set to be convened on April 20, 2024 at a place to be determined.

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