Are We Ready?

Here’s something to keep in mind: As unpleasant as General Minihan’s “gut feeling” may be, this is his area of expertise. He certainly knows a lot more about the military threats to this country than most of the people popping off on the Sunday talk shows.

If the general is right, are we ready for war with communist China or another hostile power like Iran or North Korea? 

Our industrial base most certainly is not ready.  For decades, administrations of both parties – except the Trump/Pence Administration – pursued insane policies that traded our manufacturing base for cheap goods from communist China while we closed our own factories. That idiocy may now come back to haunt us. 

A recent report demonstrated that we do not have the industrial capacity to keep up with the demands of the Ukrainian war, which we are now clearly engaged in as a proxy. And “war games” run by Washington, D.C., think tanks of a potential war with communist China show us running out of critical weapons in a week and suffering enormous losses.