China Has Mass. Can America Catch Up?
If a Taiwan war were to break out, the US would run out of high-end munitions in about 8 days.
Currently, China is far outpacing us on raw scale. They have more personnel, more missiles, and more than 200 times the shipbuilding capacity.
We sat down with
@AndurilTech CEO Brian Schimpf and
@HadrianInc CEO Chris Power to talk about what it’s going to take to make the American defense base the best in the world once again.
00:00 The myth of technical superiority
03:31 The erosion of US manufacturing
08:31 The skilled labor crisis
17:57 Supply chain vulnerabilities
36:49 Financial engineering vs. industrial policy
46:55 The Taiwan scenario & war gaming
52:55 Demographics, economics, and CCP strategy
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