This is as Sept 2022:
Posted on 01/22/2023 6:48:27 PM PST by qaz123
The U.S. will not be able to restock inventories of critical munitions sent to Ukraine for years, even as some stockpiles have become nearly depleted, the Center for Strategic and International Studies found.
The U.S. has provided 1.1 million rounds of 155mm ammunition to Ukraine as of Thursday, according to the Pentagon.
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I’ll have to disagree about the number of jobs increasing, but the shareholders are happy.
Job security at the least.
Obviously it stands in contrast to just that. "How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!' (2 Samuel 1:27) refers past glory, but rather than a band of David's to take the place of past warriors and lead to victory, America has elected leaders who have largely traded production capacity to China for cheap goods and votes, and chosen to go to war against God, including baptizing the military in the waters of Wokeism.
I’ll take “Sending Arms And Munitions To Ukraine To Hollow Out Our Own Military” for $500 Billion, Alex!
-PJ
Going to be interesting to watch since The Ukrainians havent been trained in those.
From what I have seen the tactics they used in the past months is pure comical..even on both sides.
They laugh at the smaller tanks that have been used in that conflict but here is a hint. Heavy tanks required sound footing. And taking heavy tanks off road in muddy conditions leaves them as nice big targets.
Ground freezes hard and it helps. But if that ground isnt froze hard enough they will break through the crust and bog down.
Will see.
Nobody knows but..I watched a video a couple weeks ago where Willy OAM interviewed a former Marine who is over there fighting. He told of how he and a couple other foreign mercs would go out on recon and spot Russian positions and take the coordinates and call them back only to have the Ukies say they have not the artillery to strike...or plainly ignored it.
He said in no way will the Ukies win that war without boots on the ground from other countries. I got the drift that he felt they are incapable.
Ping
Still trying to wrap my head around this, and maybe the logic circuits in my brain are malfunctioning, BUUUUUUT....
1. The US military just spent the past 20 years fighting a global “War on Terror” in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Lybia and the military-industrial complex has been ramped up, working overtime for those 20 years building a sh!tload of weapons and munitions to fight this never ending war;
2. The US military had so many weapons systems (tanks, helicopters, APCs, and munitions that we left at least $100 billion of it behind in Afghanistan;
3. Most of the weapons and munitions the US has DONATED to Ukraine were from “old” stocks and are only now beginning to provide “new” stocks of munitions and weapons;
Appears to me the Bidens, Congress, Pentagon, Deep State and our benevolent defense contracting industry is trying to pull another scam on the the taxpayers and looking for another $ Trillion.
The scam never ends.
This is as Sept 2022:
I've read others saying much difficulty with communicating with Ukrainian soldiers let alone their willingness to follow foreigners directions. They don't fully grasp they are subordinate especially when in a meat grinder of watching their people get chewed up.
...and this is ONLY what we’re being told. Pretty soon we’ll be a country without any ground fighting capability.
And for what, to enrich the DNC Money Launderers?
“Right now the government and military is so corrupt and wicked that ordinary citizens can’t be certain whether a foreign government or their own government is a bigger threat.”
China scares me and may be a bigger threat to American freedom, long-term, than our own government. But take China out of the mix, and it is our OWN GOVERNMENT, hands-down.
By the way, any word on how is Davos going?
You are asking us to compare America's manufacturing capacity during WWII (1941-45), when the country had a population of 140 million - with its population today, which is over a third of a billion?
When our real GPD was about a tenth of what it is now? When semiconductors and solid-state technology and lasers were science-fiction - compared to today?
Regards,
And there is Mike McCaul, the Pubbies’ new chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, pushing for us to send more and more to Ukraine.
I am curious how much of the war planning material needs include a war with Russia which is happening now? We’re these munition stockpiles around for a war with Russia and is that my what is happening?
From my perspective any future war with Russia is going to see a much degraded Russia military 1000s of pieces of equipment gone, millions of rounds of ammunition gone, 1000s of rockets and missiles gone, many planes helicopters gone
Call me what you want, but as I see it these weapons systems and ammunition stockpiles are being used for the purpose they were made for
As to China if it comes down to 155 rounds and Bradley’s we have already lost. Again IMO the weapons and supplies bent supplied to Ukraine will have little effect on weapons need to fight China. If it gets past a naval engagement it is most likely over
The fact that the US now has about 332 million and a higher GDP of 23.32 trillion vs. $0.203 in 1943 with vast leaps in technology taking place and following in years to come means that the current inability to quickly produce armaments relative to current tech stands in profound contrast to WW2.
Tech development is relative. The rate of increase in the 1940's and beyond was astounding, by the grace of God, Today, due to far far better accuracy and power, the US need not produce anything close to the quantity of armaments of WW2, but it takes years to replace what is given to Ukraine in the proxy war with Putin, while even if going fully onto a war footing the US lacks both the character and ability to endure a protracted war with China, though the latter is now having problems.
In any case, the manufacturing output of the US in WW2 was clearly prodigious. .
American industry provided almost two-thirds of all the Allied military equipment produced during the war. In 1939, the United States Army ranked thirty-ninth in the world, possessing a cavalry force of fifty thousand and using horses to pull the artillery. Many Americans — still trying to recover from the decade-long ordeal of the Great Depression — were reluctant to participate in the conflict that was spreading throughout Europe and Asia....In the wake of Pearl Harbor, the president set staggering goals for the nation’s factories: 60,000 aircraft in 1942 and 125,000 in 1943; 120,000 tanks in the same time period and 55,000 antiaircraft guns. In an attempt to coordinate government war agencies Roosevelt created the War Production Board in 1942 and later in 1943 the Office of War Mobilization. To raise money for defense, the government relied on a number of techniques — calling on the American people to ration certain commodities, generating more tax revenue by lowering the personal exemption and selling government war bonds to individuals and financial institutions. All of these methods served to provide the government with revenue and at the same time keep inflation under control. -https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-war/war-production..Wartime production boomed as citizens flocked to meet the demand for labor.
Unemployment, which had reached 25 percent during the Great Depression and hovered at 14.6 percent in 1939, had dropped to 1.2 percent by 1944—still a record low in the nation’s history. ...by 1945, Americans were saving an average of 21 percent of their personal disposable income, compared to just 3 percent in the 1920s....With the war finally over, American consumers were eager to spend their money, on everything from big-ticket items like homes, cars and furniture to appliances, clothing, shoes and everything else in between..... Residential construction companies also mobilized to capitalize on a similar surge in housing demand, Between 1946 and the early 1960s, Levitt & Son built three residential communities (including more than 17,000 homes), finishing as many as 30 houses a day. - https://www.history.com/news/post-world-war-ii-boom-economy
War-related production skyrocketed from just two percent of GNP to 40 percent in 1943. - https://eh.net/encyclopedia/the-american-economy-during-world-war-ii/
Fiscal ideology must never be a factor controlling a war effort
However it is
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