[central_va]

A safe, secure, and abundant supply of nutritious food is essential to the health and security of the nation.

A safe, secure, and abundant supply of manufactured goods is essential to the security of the nation.

The land is here, you can plant a field in 4 weeks you have a crop but you can't build one of these factories in 4 weeks CAN YOU?

[Dust in the Wind]

you can plant a field in 4 weeks you have a crop

Maybe some small radishes. What are you planting?

[MeganC]

“...but you can’t build one of these factories in 4 weeks CAN YOU?”

One of the amazing aspects of American manufacturing is the ability to retool and to do it quickly. Automobile factories retool every year and changing from producing cars to producing tanks would take about eight to ten weeks by modern standards.

In WW2 American factories took sometimes as little as a few days to retool from manufacturing consumer goods to producing war materiel.

Maytag retooled their existing washing machine production to making turrets for aircraft (it’s almost the same technology) and it took them about three weeks.

So, yes, it can be done if the will exists to do it.

But I suspect that if the US were to enter a serious war with China then the first enemies we’d have to defeat would be the ones we already have right here at home.

And the tools for that fight are already in your gun safe.