The end of an Empire is always hard on the couturiers.

The truly scary thing is there is a lot of fall left. Reading about the end of other empires (Rome, Byzantium, Great Britain, etc) I get the feeling we are not even into act II yet of a three act tragedy.

On the military front, I am always amazed how much old crap the military claims is fully ready. Hell the Navy retired the littoral ships 3 years after commissioning! I hope no one here is on the new B21, as I bet that bird is going to have issues.