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We went overboard cashing in on "The Peace Dividend" after the Cold War ended. This has especially hurt the navy - too many shipyard closures that not only mean we can't build enough ships but that we can't timely maintain the ones currently in the ever-dwindling fleet.
When the industrial base is pared down to the bone, you get what we have had since the 1990s: "The Incredible Shrinking US Navy." But it affects all the service branches. The air force has very few planes today, probably the fewest it has ever had, and the army is the smallest it's been since before World War II.
When you toss in recruiting shortfalls on top of the inability to make enough equipment, the problem emerges in relief.
We have a force structure today that is so small and which will have so much difficulty replacing combat losses that "force preservation" is no longer a mission consideration in a war against a serious opponent. It is the mission itself now.
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The Pentagon warns that the “steady deindustrialization” of the United States in recent decades has left the nation militarily vulnerable.
Recent decades of deindustrialization have weakened the U.S. military and the Pentagon urges “reshoring” vital manufacturing sectors that moved to Asia, such as metals, electronics, and shipbuilding. The U.S. can no longer execute large projects fast and efficiently without foreign suppliers not only in the military, but also in the energy and transportation industries.
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I’m often asked about the best book to digest the dynamic between the U.S. aerospace and defense industry and the U.S. government.
Without question, it’s Skunk Works by Ben Rich. I give this book to every person that walks through my door at the Aerospace Industries Association.
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The Pentagon warns that the “steady deindustrialization” of the United States in recent decades has left the nation militarily vulnerable.
Recent decades of deindustrialization have weakened the U.S. military and the Pentagon urges “reshoring” vital manufacturing sectors that moved to Asia, such as metals, electronics, and shipbuilding. The U.S. can no longer execute large projects fast and efficiently without foreign suppliers not only in the military, but also in the energy and transportation industries.
This is quite alarming
Evidenced by Australia finally agreeing to operate nuclear submarines
Buying them from the US and UK consortium ( AUKUS)
The real problem is the inability to build them on time ,but also hampered by internal US political fears ,that building them for an Australia will not allow the US to have enough submarines for its own military .
What this actually means is that it’s not a shortage of demand ,but US industrial degradation.
That’s a problem that can be fixed if the will is there .
Is it ?
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The Pentagon warns that the “steady deindustrialization” of the United States in recent decades has left the nation militarily vulnerable.
Recent decades of deindustrialization have weakened the U.S. military and the Pentagon urges “reshoring” vital manufacturing sectors that moved to Asia, such as metals, electronics, and shipbuilding. The U.S. can no longer execute large projects fast and efficiently without foreign suppliers not only in the military, but also in the energy and transportation industries.
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