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Title: One Big Reason America Isn't Ready for World War Three
Source: The National Interest
URL Source: http://nationalinterest.org/blog/th ... nt-ready-world-war-three-15847
Published: Apr 20, 2016
Author: Peter Navarro
Post Date: 2016-04-20 14:52:32 by Stoner
Keywords: None
Views: 3783
Comments: 30

I was on this hill as a battery commander with six 88-millimeter antitank guns, and the Americans kept sending tanks down the road and we kept knocking them out. Finally, we ran out of ammunition and the Americans didn’t run out of tanks.

-- Nazi Artillery Commander, Battle of Salerno

At the start of World War II, the combined economies of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were only half the size of the United States. If for no other reason than the sheer weight of its factories and work force, America thereby held the strategic high ground.

In fact, the statistical correspondence between economic power and military might in World War II is startlingly. While the United States could field over three hundred thousand military aircraft, a combined Germany and Japan had less than two hundred thousand.

In the Western Pacific, the United States had about 350 destroyers compared to Japan’s 63. Meanwhile, on the European continent, the United States had over seventy thousand tanks compared to less than forty-five thousand for Germany—Exhibit A, the Allied victory at the Battle of Salerno.

The broader Stalinesque “quantity has its own quality” point is simply this: While brave American soldiers and sailors and flyers at the frontlines ultimately won World War II, they had at their backs heartland factories that could churn out tanks and planes and ships at rates far greater than the enemy could destroy them—definitive proof of the winning ways of what the great Prussian strategist Carl von Clausewitz once aptly referred to as “war by algebra.”

Today, however, many of those heartland factories that won World War II for America have been shuttered and moved to cities with names like Chengdu, Chongqing and Shenzhen. And here’s the obvious strategic problem:

If World War III does indeed arrive—triggered by some trigger-happy PLA captain in the South China Sea or a nuclear strike by Pyongyang on Seoul or America coming to Japan’s defense over some “rocks in the sea”—the United States will no longer have mass on its side.


Yeah, all those one sided trade deals are OK, the CFR crowd likes them.

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#6. To: Stoner, Y'ALL (#0)

If World War III does indeed arrive—triggered by some trigger-happy PLA captain in the South China Sea or a nuclear strike by Pyongyang on Seoul or America coming to Japan’s defense over some “rocks in the sea”—the United States will no longer have mass on its side.

We still have overwhelming nuclear capabilities, and no longer need mass manufacturing. -- Although we could gear up rapidly.

Don't worry, be happy, Trump is coming soon.

tpaine  posted on  2016-04-20   18:15:54 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: tpaine (#6) (Edited)

We still have overwhelming nuclear capabilities, and no longer need mass manufacturing. -- Although we could gear up rapidly.

Some sectors and know-how is lost. It would take time to gear up.

A Pole  posted on  2016-04-20   19:05:14 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: A Pole (#7)

We still have overwhelming nuclear capabilities, and no longer need mass manufacturing. -- Although we could gear up rapidly.

Some sectors and know-how is lost.

Pure bull. -- Name what is 'lost'.

It would take time to gear up.

So it would. And it would take a LOT more time for anyone to gear up an invasion of the USA..

tpaine  posted on  2016-04-20   19:13:19 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: tpaine, paraclete, U don't know me, Roscoe, Willie Green, sneakypete, Vicomte13, TooConservative (#8) (Edited)

Some sectors and know-how is lost.

Pure bull. -- Name what is 'lost'.

So much manufacturing and technology was off-shored, I am sure someone here with more knowledge than me can provide better answer for you.

A Pole  posted on  2016-04-20   19:19:22 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: A Pole (#9)

Some sectors and know-how is lost.

Pure bull. -- Name what is 'lost'.

So much manufacturing and technology was off-shored,

Doesn't mean our capability to restore it is 'lost'. We can make ANY damn thing we need, fast enough to prevent any invasion.

I am sure someone here with more knowledge than me can provide better answer for you.

Don't be too sure of that. This site is getting really shy of people who can answer/debate their own bullshit..

tpaine  posted on  2016-04-20   19:34:27 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#11. To: tpaine (#10)

We can make ANY damn thing we need, fast enough to prevent any invasion.

I did not talk about invasion which is very unlikely across the oceans.

Do not use Red Herring tricks.

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