@beijingwalker
I will quote a critical line in the article: It is operating in a peacetime environment.
I do not know how China and its industry work in great detail regarding the civil-military relationship. In the U.S., our companies that develop dual-use equipment or hardware that's of interest to the military down the road are tasked by the Pentagon to create a plan in case they have to retool and go total war mode. They are required every three years to furnish a report to the Pentagon and the Department of Defense. So companies from Ford to Tyson Foods have a plan in place. There are backup plans if we need to tap into raw material resources for production purposes.
God forbid if the U.S. has to go Pitbull.
These feel-good articles bring no value unless written by an author who has studied the American industrial base and its effect on war production. I'm not discrediting that author, but he's spent his whole life studying counterinsurgency and counterterrorism; that's like asking a family physician to do heart stent placement.
P.S. some Chinese might start talking about how the U.S. struggled with essential PPE during COVID. Yes, it did. However, the order wasn't given for wartime production status until much later during Trump's term. However, then, there were warehouses packed, but no supplies were moving because of the cost factor of importing. Had we taken the cost factor out, then yes, the U.S. had enough supplies sitting around. I had clients who quickly went from cosmetic production to hand sanitizers within one week and garment facilities into PPE within two weeks.
So, if ever pushed into a corner, the Americans can do it. We in the states are paying high prices for the Trumps trade war and current inflationary effects, but Americans, I can tell you, go about their life as usual.
I will quote a critical line in the article: It is operating in a peacetime environment.
I do not know how China and its industry work in great detail regarding the civil-military relationship. In the U.S., our companies that develop dual-use equipment or hardware that's of interest to the military down the road are tasked by the Pentagon to create a plan in case they have to retool and go total war mode. They are required every three years to furnish a report to the Pentagon and the Department of Defense. So companies from Ford to Tyson Foods have a plan in place. There are backup plans if we need to tap into raw material resources for production purposes.
God forbid if the U.S. has to go Pitbull.
These feel-good articles bring no value unless written by an author who has studied the American industrial base and its effect on war production. I'm not discrediting that author, but he's spent his whole life studying counterinsurgency and counterterrorism; that's like asking a family physician to do heart stent placement.
P.S. some Chinese might start talking about how the U.S. struggled with essential PPE during COVID. Yes, it did. However, the order wasn't given for wartime production status until much later during Trump's term. However, then, there were warehouses packed, but no supplies were moving because of the cost factor of importing. Had we taken the cost factor out, then yes, the U.S. had enough supplies sitting around. I had clients who quickly went from cosmetic production to hand sanitizers within one week and garment facilities into PPE within two weeks.
So, if ever pushed into a corner, the Americans can do it. We in the states are paying high prices for the Trumps trade war and current inflationary effects, but Americans, I can tell you, go about their life as usual.
