Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was famous for planning the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Aware of America's manufacturing might, later he would write, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
Get ready, Vlad.
Get ready, Vlad.
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In four years, America's production capacity doubled. Producing 297,000 aircraft, 193,000 artillery pieces, 86,000 tanks and two million army trucks. Much of it was sent to Russia to save them from the German onslaught. pbs.org/kenburns/the-w…
"U.S. deliveries to the USSR was $11 billion in materials: over 400,000 jeeps and trucks; 12,000 armored vehicles including 7,000 tanks and 11,400 aircraft" share.america.gov/america-sent-e…
"The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war." - Josef Stalin rferl.org/a/did-us-lend-…
As much as Vlad would like to dream, Russia still ranks amongst the lowest in global production capability and capacity. He will have to beg or borrow gear from China, India or North Korea. brookings.edu/research/globa…
The West has millions of pieces of 80's and 90's equipment designed specifically to fight Russia on the land, air and seas of Europe. If Ukraine is amenable, then we can offload this gear while we design newer, cooler stuff.
Russia has a target rich military. Much of our technology is focused on new systems to eliminate entire forces without adjusting the air conditioning in the command center. C2 vs. C4ISR vs. C5ISR vs. C6ISR. Russia is back.. at what C3 with a dash of cyber? trentonsystems.com/blog/c2-c4isr-…
C6ISR (Command Control Communications Computers Cyber-Defense and Combat Systems and Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance) is not aspirational it's what America is waiting to unleash on a first world enemy. Can America fight that stand off war? We are about to find out.
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