Just MHO but think the Biden Admin is trying to completely hollow out the military, completing what started with the Clinton Admin & accelerated under Obama.
When your defense industry (including everything from chips to ships to ammo for them to shoot), and your food production , have been off-shored to save a rasbucknik or two, they you have let someone else hold your sovereignty hostage. When it becomes expedient for said holders to keep it, what in hell do you propose to do about it? The keepers of the purse are derelict in their duty.
There's gotta be inventory somewhere, maintained in deep storage quietly by a long chain of astute master chiefs, of USN M1917(M1941) Boarding Cutlasses, right?
I think the issue with this article is that it doesn't clearly enough outline what war you imagine as the threat.
1) Large wars between major powers will have nuclear weapons at play; there is every reason to believe that they will be 72 hour wars.
2) Wars like Ukraine don't involve mass industrial mobilization so you shouldn't expect weapons to be producible in large quantities on short notice.
POTUS needs to use the War Powers Act to replenish inventory. But POTUS is no FDR or HST so he'll find a way to make things worse not better.
Just MHO but think the Biden Admin is trying to completely hollow out the military, completing what started with the Clinton Admin & accelerated under Obama.
When your defense industry (including everything from chips to ships to ammo for them to shoot), and your food production , have been off-shored to save a rasbucknik or two, they you have let someone else hold your sovereignty hostage. When it becomes expedient for said holders to keep it, what in hell do you propose to do about it? The keepers of the purse are derelict in their duty.
There's gotta be inventory somewhere, maintained in deep storage quietly by a long chain of astute master chiefs, of USN M1917(M1941) Boarding Cutlasses, right?