I'm sure the article is great. The Atlantic however has been demonstrably a force for evil, hubris and misadventure in US Foreign Policy: a ship of fools.
Moreover we reshore the rest [and are] as fast as we can.
We're quite becoming an industrial power again, rapidly reshoring.
The given reasons are war and covid, but it's for the good of the nation and the people.
Most of our foreign trade is Canada and Mexico, BTW.
It's a myth our economy is dependent on foreign trade. There are powerful American interests who's personal and business interests depend on foreign trade, not the overall economy.
And I grew up wearing hand-me-downs, and clothes with patches I DGAF if a new generation has to for a few years.
No, you don't get a new Navy, and you'll be sorry if you do.
Because you'll have to fight, and die - and you aren't ready.
Is it at all in dispute that we crushed the Axis in W2 because we were an industrial juggernaut? And is it in dispute that we haven't even been able to manufacture stuff for ourselves for decades?
Which is why we need to rebuild our industrial capacity-which good news is happening fast- before we start fights.
We 🇺🇸 are in truth starting fights to justify and accelerate reshoring our industry.
It’s not a perfect world.
And BTW both Russia and Great Britain had a lot to do with crushing said Axis, the chief American contribution was oil, vehicles and arms, air power, yes sea power as well. 80% of German combat deaths Eastern Front.
We greatly improved with experience, at the same time they were running out. Training is vital as is starting with good equipment, we had neither. The American army in 1939 is 140,000 (16th in size in 🌎) and had been starved of funds and equipment for most of the decade. By late 1944-45 completely different story.
The Heer began rearming and intensive training and taking armored warfare in 1933, tanks in 1934, and so on. Meanwhile the US Army is being threatened with GCM if they start a tank up (uses gas). In 1933 Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur tells FDR his budget cuts are so deep they mean war.
We don’t even think seriously nor start to prepare until 1940. The Germans at that point have the Sudenland , Anschluss (a logistic and operational fiasco BTW, gotta learn), Norway, Poland and then France under their belts. They were simply ahead and not on tech. Its the people.
Had we started getting serious about land war and building an army in 1936-37 different story.
We just weren’t serious until France fell. Then the work had to be put in.
Alfred T. Mayan smiles.
Mahan. Damn you, Autocorrect!!!
Mahan and Corbett are just as relevant now as when they first published
And yes we can have both: https://www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/mahan-versus-corbett-in-width-depth-and-context/
I'm sure the article is great. The Atlantic however has been demonstrably a force for evil, hubris and misadventure in US Foreign Policy: a ship of fools.
The old wisdom is the best wisdom. He's well worth a revisit every few years.
Most of our trade and economy are domestic.
Moreover we reshore the rest [and are] as fast as we can.
We're quite becoming an industrial power again, rapidly reshoring.
The given reasons are war and covid, but it's for the good of the nation and the people.
Most of our foreign trade is Canada and Mexico, BTW.
It's a myth our economy is dependent on foreign trade. There are powerful American interests who's personal and business interests depend on foreign trade, not the overall economy.
And I grew up wearing hand-me-downs, and clothes with patches I DGAF if a new generation has to for a few years.
No, you don't get a new Navy, and you'll be sorry if you do.
Because you'll have to fight, and die - and you aren't ready.
Is it at all in dispute that we crushed the Axis in W2 because we were an industrial juggernaut? And is it in dispute that we haven't even been able to manufacture stuff for ourselves for decades?
We are just screwed.
Which is why we need to rebuild our industrial capacity-which good news is happening fast- before we start fights.
We 🇺🇸 are in truth starting fights to justify and accelerate reshoring our industry.
It’s not a perfect world.
And BTW both Russia and Great Britain had a lot to do with crushing said Axis, the chief American contribution was oil, vehicles and arms, air power, yes sea power as well. 80% of German combat deaths Eastern Front.
The Germans didn't think much of US fighting power in WW2, at least according to the Wehrmacht autobiographies.
We greatly improved with experience, at the same time they were running out. Training is vital as is starting with good equipment, we had neither. The American army in 1939 is 140,000 (16th in size in 🌎) and had been starved of funds and equipment for most of the decade. By late 1944-45 completely different story.
The Heer began rearming and intensive training and taking armored warfare in 1933, tanks in 1934, and so on. Meanwhile the US Army is being threatened with GCM if they start a tank up (uses gas). In 1933 Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur tells FDR his budget cuts are so deep they mean war.
We don’t even think seriously nor start to prepare until 1940. The Germans at that point have the Sudenland , Anschluss (a logistic and operational fiasco BTW, gotta learn), Norway, Poland and then France under their belts. They were simply ahead and not on tech. Its the people.
Had we started getting serious about land war and building an army in 1936-37 different story.
We just weren’t serious until France fell. Then the work had to be put in.