I would say that this has happened to our institutions as a whole, as the embedded growth obligations built into the weren't able to be sustained.
There was a recent report to Congress about the readiness of the Navy Surface fleet to fight a peer, and it also found a normalization of deviance. This was because of defunding, and a lack of contact with actual peer opponents.
This pattern is widespread, and requires active vigilance to keep it from taking root.
There was a recent report to Congress about the readiness of the Navy Surface fleet to fight a peer, and it also found a normalization of deviance. This was because of defunding, and a lack of contact with actual peer opponents.
This pattern is widespread, and requires active vigilance to keep it from taking root.