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America’s One-War Military Is No Match for Reality
National Security Journal ^ | 8/8/2024 | Mackenzie Eaglen

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War
KEYWORDS: china; military; russia; usmiliary
How can we fight two wars at once? Oh, wait, we can't.
1 posted on 08/08/2024 10:59:32 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
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To: whyilovetexas111

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.


2 posted on 08/08/2024 11:05:41 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: whyilovetexas111

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.


3 posted on 08/08/2024 11:09:39 AM PDT by desertsolitaire ( )
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To: whyilovetexas111

Sad.


4 posted on 08/08/2024 11:21:05 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: desertsolitaire
All good points, but we cannot do this now or in the near future because there are not enough people in uniform, and nobody wants to join.

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.

5 posted on 08/08/2024 11:23:39 AM PDT by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angels will sing for me. )
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To: whyilovetexas111
Back in the mid 2000s I was warning folks that we were really screwing up by squandering our defense budget on optimizing our military for low intensity conflict to kill stone age savages carrying clapped out AK 47s and defend against IEDs when we should be spending our bucks on upgrading and modernizing our high tech, advanced weapons to fight and dominate a high intensity, near peer war with a serious adversary.

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

6 posted on 08/08/2024 11:23:54 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: whyilovetexas111

Guess it’s time to head to Walmart and increase the munitions stores...


7 posted on 08/08/2024 11:46:56 AM PDT by jagusafr ( )
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Does Walmart sell RPGs, 82mm mortars and rounds?


8 posted on 08/08/2024 12:22:37 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: desertsolitaire

15 million men under arms.

99 aircraft carriers

95 divisions

10 air fleets


9 posted on 08/08/2024 12:24:45 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: whyilovetexas111

How can we fight two wars at once? Oh, wait, we can’t.

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 ...


10 posted on 08/08/2024 12:25:44 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Jim Noble

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!


11 posted on 08/08/2024 12:38:57 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: whyilovetexas111

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.


12 posted on 08/08/2024 2:39:49 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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