Posted on 08/08/2024 10:59:32 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
Four consecutive bipartisan defense strategy commissions have looked “under the hood” of America’s armed forces and all issued dire warnings.
The Department of Defense is out-matched for the united threats it faces. This is reinforced by the report from the National Defense Strategy Commission, which opens with a sobering declaration: “The Commission finds that the U.S. military lacks both the capabilities and the capacity required to be confident it can deter and prevail in combat.”
The report paints a stark picture of the global security environment, noting the threats the United States faces are “…the most serious and challenging the nation has encountered since 1945 and include the potential for near-term major war.”
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No we cannot fight a two front war because our garbage establishment de-industrialized America. We cannot repurpose peacetime factories to war factories because we no longer have them.
One of the reasons we ultimately overpowered the Axis countries in WW2 was our ability to out manufacture ships, planes, tanks, trucks, etc. We converted existing US owned auto manufacturing facilities to armaments. Now days our US share of auto manufacturing plants is lower and perhaps more difficult to repurpose quickly?
Would Toyota and Honda, etc even convert their facilities to making war materiel for our cause?
Plus the future may not be much in tanks trucks and ships but drones and planes to transport them.
Sad.
Drones are being heavily used in Ukraine and by Hezbollah and Israel. Dorne counter-weapons are already being produced, and more are in the developmental pipeline. Drones will evolve also, but you need bodies to take and hold real estate.
Instead, we taught our adversaries how to fight a modern war and gave them the time and technology boost to retool their military to at least near peer level and perhaps even leap frog us to over match in some areas - especially those of innovative, emerging technology.
The sad fact is that we have been resting on our laurels to a large extent and many of the key technologies that gave us a huge technological edge such as low observably aircraft and weapons, advanced ISR capabilities combined with real time targeting of precision smart weapons, night vision, elctroptics , space based capabilities, hypersonics and precision nuclear weapons delivery systems are now becoming either mainstream or obsolete technologies.
We have balked at anti missile defense and we may even be behind in cyber warfare technology. As an open society we vulnerable because of the ability of our enemies to embed cyber threats into basic mission critical infrastructure components of our society
Guess it’s time to head to Walmart and increase the munitions stores...
Does Walmart sell RPGs, 82mm mortars and rounds?
15 million men under arms.
99 aircraft carriers
95 divisions
10 air fleets
How can we fight two wars at once? Oh, wait, we can’t.
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Because the Defense budget is only 3.2% of GDP and Biden/Harris wants to cut even further.
Because we have de-industrialized. Because we have only a few shipyards and only 2-3 plane manufactures.
Because ...
We don’t need any of that crap. We need to start manufacturing teddy bears, and printing gender queer theory materials in multiple languages ASAP…….hearts and minds campaigns and changing viewpoints are how you win wars!
Lawyers are the problem. JAG. Coalition troops in Afghanistan were prevented from being successful because of nutty rules of engagement. So basically Americans and Canadians set up “camp” and became occasional targets for Afghanis climbing out of the hills.
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