Comment by array_key_first

The process aims to minimize risk. This goes for process in general - that's why process exists.

Okay, let's think about what risks might be associated with making a fighter plane. The plane could blow up. The plane could be hard to maintain. The plane could get fighter pilots killed.

In a war, death is already on the table and soldiers are, more or less, expendable. In peacetime, this is not the case.

It's not that when we are in war, everything goes lovey dovey and great. No. Shit goes wrong constantly.

But we don't have time to care, we have bigger fish to fry: war.