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well philly was a very particular place on its docks for many years.
worked out pretty well for a long time.
then at teh commercial level, container ships started and transport got centralized thorugh nyc and baltimore.
and the navy yard is gone too, isnt it?
this outsourcing seems different to me than the symbosis between a navy yard in the states and the city it occupies.
extending outsourcing into combat situations seems something else again--consider for example the instance talked about in the article with brown and root in kosovo--if that kind of thing can happen routinely, then obviously the cost-reduction argument goes out the window--because the conservative faith in "competition"--already something of a farce to begin with when you think about the real world instead of the fiction of a world of little bidnesses---is short circuited by the nature of the operations these comanies are being asked to perform.
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