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Between the “peace dividend” and “outsourcing”, our defense industry is reliant on Chinese products.
But a swift response may not be possible, in large part because of how shrunken the U.S. manufacturing base has become since the Cold War. All of a sudden, Washington is reckoning with the fact that so many parts and pieces of munitions, planes, and ships it needs are being manufactured overseas, including in China. Among the deficiencies: components of solid rocket motors, shell casings, machine tools, fuses and precursor elements to propellants and explosives, many of which are made in China and India.
There’s nothing sudden about this.
Congress, administrations and the defense industry focused on expensive big ticket items and new technology at the expense of the basics that would allow us to fight an extended war.
It’s a similar problem to the one that Israel is facing.
Our situation is in some ways worse because one of the principles of our soft power defense diplomacy was acting as arms dealers and offering to secure the capabilities of an entire alliance of free nations around the world only for our own capabilities to be falling short.
Are we still able to manufacture rocks?
Our political and economic leaders are the most stupid people in the country.
Next you will be telling us that our medicines and antibiotics are made in China. No way that would ever happen!
“The smart people,” say get your medicines, clothing, and food containers from people that hate you, or at least say one of you has to go. I’m not a smart person, much less an “intellectual.” Apparently the latter requires the entire frontal lobe removed. I wonder what they did to obtain “intellectuals,” before brain surgery?
Absolutely correct, and it’s a problem the military has been aware of for a very long time. Outsourcing strategic components and materials to our enemies is the definition of “suicidal tendencies”. So much so, one might consider the possibility of it being intentional.
Right after Uncle Sam Released Me, dems made ron dellums chairman of the Armed Services Committee.
That’s the new game, make the enemy dependent on you for military supplies.
China’s total domination over many crucial markets and their complete control of those supply chains is actually a major part of China’s ongoing war on America, albeit the first, less-conspicuous stage. Later stages will see China vs its paralyzed victims, as China cuts off their supplies, decimating them in a nanosecond.
Excellent article. This hollowing out of the U.S. manufacturing base has been known and talked about for years and our corrupt government has done nothing, in fact probably continues to further ruin the manufacturing base. I’m pessimistic about our survival as a free powerful nation. Enough with the studies and rhetoric from our betters. We need action.