March 14 - 15, 2026 Are we running low on ammo? As Operation Epic Fury ramps up, some experts say we are in dire need of replenishing our missiles and bombs. And if there is a shortage in the Middle East, how long can we possibly defend Taiwan against a Chinese attack? A few weeks? Days? Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar shares these concerns. He and his colleague Madeline Hart are out this week with a new book, Mobilize: How to Reboot the American Industrial Base and Stop World War III. Sean Durns gives us a review. https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2k1N!,w_1100,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F69c590d8-5d7f-4b57-9470-144057c3f90c_680x383.jpeg “By some estimates, China now has 232 times the shipbuilding capacity that America possesses. ... We now find ourselves in a place where, according to most war games, this country would run out of key munitions in a war with China in mere weeks, perhaps even days. “The Allies won World War II thanks to America’s fabled ‘Arsenal of Democracy.’ We outproduced the Axis powers, fielding munitions and weapons that were essential to a hard-fought victory. In 1943, Joseph Stalin acknowledged as much, toasting ‘American production, without which this war would have been lost.’ “The victors of that war knew something that future generations in the West would tragically forget: Industrial power wins wars. “In February 1941, 10 months before Pearl Harbor and America’s entry into that conflict, Winston Churchill addressed a joint session of Congress. While Britain battled alone, Churchill made his pitch to an isolationist America. ‘Give us the tools,’ he pleaded, ‘and we’ll finish the job.’ Now, eight decades later and facing another great power war, it is America that is short on tools. “Sankar and Hart explore why. They could use the occasion to throw their hands in the air or point fingers, but thankfully they don’t. Instead, the authors use historical case studies to highlight where things went wrong. They avoid dogmatism and partisanship, tracing the roots of America’s defense industrial decline back decades, before the Cold War’s end and the consolidation of prime defense manufacturers in the 1990s.” Responder Añadir un comenta