the Army is funding [1] Cummins new $87M opposed piston diesel engines for vehicles, they will have about a 25% decrease in fuel use. (which is HUGE for an army that has to carry their own fuel) That will definitely be quickly implemented by the major transportation companies, since fuel is such a huge part of their cost for trucking.
0. https://www.fairbanksmorse.com/blog/new-opposed-piston-engin...
1. https://www.greencarcongress.com/2021/08/20210803-ace.html
[1]:https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/06/13/report...
Unsurprisingly the US army is the organization that uses the largest amount of oil in the world.
Not necessarily, after a certain point MAD comes to play ( assuming rational actors, which Putin is not).
That's the obsoleted narrative that the proliferation of nuclear weapons would create long-lasting world-wide peace.
Easily disproven by current events.
> assuming rational actors, which Putin is not
Hence the criticism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction#Cri...
Unsurprising the Doomsday Clock is showing increased threat level.
It's clearly not obsolete nor disproven by current events at all.
The conflict would have to involve two nuclear powers at war with eachother. The US and Russia are not at war; NATO and Russia are not at war; MAD hasn't failed what-so-ever, nor has it even come to that context. The situation is presently one nuclear power vs a non-nuclear power (being supplied with weapons by foreign allies).
The present events don't disprove the effectiveness of MAD any more than Russia in Afghanistan did.
Simple: it's bad, very bad. Increasing expenditure increases the threat level: it's the whole point.
Not to mention that the world is facing a climate catastrophe and the war machine is amongst the biggest sources of pollution.