As a former buyer/contract specialist for the U.S. Millitary, I can guess that the quote you didn't finish goes something like this: "Weapons sitting in an armory are a lot cheaper than lives lost on the battlefield while emergency procurement is done for adequate weapons to fight a war you weren't prepared for. The same thing happened just prior to WW2. We almost didn't get the B-17 because of stupidity and cronyism in congress. Same with the P-38. Without those two alone we would have had a much harder time and the wars on both oceans would have taken longer and more people would have been killed. The squabbling between the Navy and the Army Air Corp and even between the Army and the Army Air Corp cost us dearly in lives and equipment