🇺🇸🇨🇳 America’s factories and arsenals are not ready for a major war with China...
Detailed CSIS simulations of a Taiwan Strait fight show U.S. forces burning through thousands of long-range precision missiles within the first 3 weeks, numbers that already exceeded pre-war stockpiles years ago.
The same studies found that certain critical munitions would be exhausted in under a single week.
Without deep reserves or the ability to surge production rapidly, both deterrence by denial and deterrence by punishment lose credibility.
The gap between what a Pacific war would demand and what U.S. industry can currently deliver remains vast.
Source: CSIS / Writer: Samuel