The U.S. Industrial Base Is Not Prepared for a Possible Conflict with China
The U.S. Industrial Base Is Not Prepared for a Possible Conflict with China
To deter a potential conflict with China, the United States must act quickly to resolve key challenges in its industrial base.
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During the first COVID supply crisis after China shut down, I remember:
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A door factory shutting down because they couldn't domestically source the parts for doors
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Freight truck factories shutting down production because they couldn't domestically source some small metal part
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Every utilities company facing critical shortages for repairs and maintenance, warning they were one natural disaster away from the electrical grid collapsing
Every utilities company facing critical shortages for repairs and maintenance
Still an issue, I work for a utility and lead times for things like high voltage transformers are still ~18 months or so from what I've been told
Coincidentally, I also processed a shipment of smaller transformers that came thru from South Korea (which for us was unheard of)
It's not ideal
so what youre telling me is that if a group of organized people wanted, they could take out the entire us electrical grid by blowing up a bunch of transformers?
HUH
Attack on Nine Substations Could Take Down U.S. Grid (2014)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/attack-on-nine-substations-could-take-down-us-grid
interesting
Lead times on those have been that bad for at least 10 years
It's never been good in my experience (9 years), but it's also never been quite as bad as it currently is
-Ammunition becoming more scarce and expensive because guess who makes almost every primer in almost every shell
We truly missed a potential cool zone. Donald Trump is made of goddamn teflon.
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