Comment by biophysboy

I regularly see comments on HN that worry about how our output is lower than China. Their population is 4x ours. They have long used financial repression to encourage industrial development. The incentives toward overcapacity, price wars, and domestic competition are so strong that they are actively trying to curtail it. Why should I endorse a defense strategy that is guaranteed to enrich ideologues in Silicon Valley, but not likely to achieve anything else?

A million drones is a rounding error in China. Increasing this number by orders of magnitude would require the state administering some pretty big pills, which I doubt the average American would want to swallow.