Not necessarily. The moment these issues hit critical systems you'll see a change. DoD officials have already sounded the alarm on monopoly in general:

https://www.defenseone.com/business/2021/02/hicks-warns-agai...

The DoD has lost trillions of dollars of equipment.

They will rattle sabers until their grandson gets a no show job.

Billions I might believe over their history. Trillions id need to see some evidence of. Especially if “lost” is including combat losses

There has got to be some way to fix this problem. How is it that as a society we have collectively built up so much bureaucracy and bloat that causes this?

It literally wasn’t worth it to return? I might have a biased view of this site but I thought we were mostly engineers who understood how complicated a “simple” change could be. Logistics for physical goods is hard enough for coordinating moving items from a factory to a front which is order -> chaos. Moving from a war front back to storage is going from chaos -> order and significantly harder.

Either way, still not trillions to my original point

Can't see why not.

Charging a single person in boeing is not the same as bringing down the whole company