Posted on 01/23/2023 4:43:42 PM PST by JonPreston
WASHINGTON ― The U.S. defense-industrial base is not ready for a battle over Taiwan, as it would run out of key long-range, precision-guided munitions in less than one week, according to a new report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
U.S. military aid to Ukraine has helped prevent a Russian victory against the neighboring nation, but that assistance has depleted Pentagon stockpiles and shown that the American defense industry cannot surge for a major war, the think tank found.
“As the war in Ukraine illustrates, a war between major powers is likely to be a protracted, industrial-style conflict that needs a robust defense industry able to produce enough munitions and other weapons systems for a protracted war if deterrence fails,” wrote Seth Jones, senior vice president and director of the international security program at CSIS.
“Given the lead time for industrial production, it would likely be too late for the defense industry to ramp up production if a war were to occur without major changes.”
The report, which spotlights U.S. military aid to Ukraine and criticizes bureaucratic hurdles for defense contracting and U.S. arms sales overseas, recommends Washington reexamine its munitions needs and deepen its supplies, and that it remove regulatory hurdles to manufacturing with and exporting to allies.
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Anything the left can do to weaken the U.S. in any way is what they are going to do.
Well there’s about 4000 operational Abrams tanks in US commands.
Not sure where they all would be tied up?
You’re right.
It takes soldiers to fire those precision-guided munitions. It just happens that recruiting is way down and soldiers are not re-enlisting. I know a bit about my son-in-law’s battalion and it is barely combat ready from a numbers standpoint. That’s using the Army’s definition of combat ready. And there’s the rub. I can’t help thinking that the Army’s definition is crap.
Oh come on. What does China even know about pronouns. Not to mention their military probably will cause global warming. How is that “winning”? We will at least get a participation ribbon, right?
We’re in dire straits. No pun intended.
Pretty soon we couldn’t even defend our own southern border if we wanted to.
It will take 7 months to re-build our inventory of what we’ve sent to Ukraine.
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Wrong, many articles out there stating it will take at least three years, pull up Lockheed CEO statement stating it will 3 years for Javelins and up to five years for Stingers just to get to Pre Ukie war levels.
Good job war cheerleaders.
That’s a photoshop, and not a very good one, either.
(Note the white mark by his right elbow, and the additional white area just above above it where Mzz Zzzzz’s glamorous blonde curl was removed from the wall corner.)
I'm with you.
The MIC lobbying for more spending more debt for We The People.
Thanks for that. I stand corrected.
We probably couldn’t adequately defend the southern border if the Cartels started raising hell on US territory.
And discontinue the use of fossil fuels.
So who all should go to jail for this? Top generals, congress, CEOs....drain the swamp.
It’s called TREASON.
Ukraine War Shows the US Military Isn’t Ready for War With China By Hal Brands Bloomberg Opinion September 18, 2022
Jake Sullivan recently told Bloomberg News that there is a “distinct threat” of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines has characterized that threat as “acute.” In public, the Pentagon now says only that it does not expect an invasion in the next two years.
The impression one gets from conversations around Washington is that many officials believe that a major Chinese use of force against Taiwan — whether an outright invasion or simply a coercive blockade — could come in the next three to five years, once President Xi Jinping is more confident that his fast-modernizing People’s Liberation Army can prevail. Whether the US is ready for the train wreck that so many of its own officials see coming is a different matter.
The Ukraine war isn’t a fight between two great powers, but it is a case study in how hard it can be simply to keep fighting in high-intensity conflict: A free-world coalition led by a global superpower has struggled to meet the Kyiv government’s needs without dangerously depleting its own stockpiles.
The US reportedly provided one-third of its overall stockpile of Javelin antitank missiles to Ukraine in the first, most desperate weeks of the fighting. It may take years for Washington and other countries to replenish their armories.
... As Michael Beckley and I write in our new book, “Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China,” the opening stages of a US-China war would be shocking in their intensity and destruction. US forces would burn through missiles, torpedoes, precision-guided bombs and other relatively scarce weapons as they tried to stymie a Chinese invasion and break an air and sea blockade of Taiwan.
Losses of ships and planes could be worse than anything the US military has experienced since World War II. According to one recent war game, the US might lose two aircraft carriers and 700 to 900 combat aircraft (nearly half its global inventory). That’s if things go relatively well....
... The US still has the globe’s leading economy, but this time its likely adversary, China, serves as the workshop of the world. Beijing possesses a roughly 3-to1 production advantage in shipbuilding, for instance, which would come in very handy after both sides lose lots of vessels in the opening weeks of a war. The economist Noah Smith has even estimated that, “While Russia itself can’t manufacture the materiel for a protracted local conflict with Europe, China can manufacture enough to sustain both itself and Russia” in a global fight against the democratic world....
... There isn’t much spare capacity in this system, or in US manufacturing more broadly: America lacks even the basic building blocks, such as adequate machine tools and a trained labor force, that it would need for wartime mobilization... - https://www.aei.org/op-eds/ukraine-war-shows-the-us-military-isnt-ready-for-war-with-china/
Do you think General Pershing can be recalled to active duty? 🤗😆😅🤪
In the 1990s, I spent way too much time playing with a computer wargame called Harpoon. Larry Bond, who developed it, got co-writer credit from Tom Clancy for his work wargaming all the Naval-Air battle scenarios in Red Storm Rising. Look all that up.
Anyway, based on my basic understanding of how that stuff works, I’d say at LEAST 500 miles. The idea that ANYTHING goes anywhere near the Taiwan Strait in a wartime situation is laughable. It goes down immediately.
THey’re gonna need A LOT of money!
Yet it would cost China less if it waited until America and it wokitary forces weaken both the character and capability of the post-Christian US even more. Every generation since WW2 has been more liberal and than the last one.
Well, in that case, send more munitions to Ukraine.
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