alt Hacker News> The solution was a market and "currency" for units to buy equipment and supplies. Brigade-level units purchase drones directly from the manufacturers using the "Brave" marketplace. The currency in the marketplace is points that units earn from video-confirmed kills of Russians. Drones flow to the most effective units, those units work closely with the manufacturers, and they can choose from a range of options depending on their current mission and Russian tactics.
Get out of the way, Pentagon, and let the best field grunts do procurement. How does the US military industrial complex react to that idea?
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We would need a test bed for the different drones, and a way to get the points system working. Are you volunteering Cuba to be our testbed?
I’m sure if you call the pentagon “central planning” enough times people will decide they are communists and get rid of them.
Seems like a way to purposly implement Goodhart's Law in a war bureaucracy. Like, the law is a warning but neoliberals might read it differently I guess...
> Drones flow to the most effective units
I guess that can work if the major battles are concentrated only at a few point. But what happens when it is spread out along a huge frontline? You can't really prioritise for "effective" if you also need to prioritise for "necessity"?