Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships?

Re:Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships? by JumpCrisscross on Thursday September 05, 2024 @01:04PM (#41458520)

> If China and the U.S. get into a conflict, like every war it will be a question of war production

This describes attritional war [1]. Not all wars are attritional. American war planning has, since the Cold War, extracted a peace dividend in not maintaining its warmaking industry, relying, instead, on stockpiles and quick victories.

In China, for the first time since the Soviet Union, we have an adversary who could draw down our stockpiles and force us into attritional war.

[1] https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/war-and-deterrence-in...

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Re:Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships? by treebeard901 on Thursday September 05, 2024 @03:08PM (#41459567)

Fair point. I was referring to great power conflict which should always result in attritionial war. Not every war as I said.

Of course, if one side wins quickly, it would be questionable if it was ever really a great power conflict to begin with.

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