Bloomberg: The war in Ukraine showed that the United States is not yet ready for a military confrontation with China
Johns Hopkins University professor Hal Brands, in an article for Bloomberg, expressed the opinion that the United States should draw a conclusion from the conflict in Ukraine. In particular, the Pentagon must understand that the conduct of a modern war requires simply a colossal amount of ammunition and weapons.
The expert noted that the war in Ukraine is not a confrontation between two great powers. Meanwhile, the high intensity of hostilities requires an incredible amount of weapons, without which it will not be possible to achieve results on the fronts.
Brands recalled that at the very beginning of the confrontation between Ukraine and Russia, the United States transferred to Kyiv a third of its stocks of Javelin anti-tank systems. Now it will take years for the American military-industrial complex to produce this amount of this weapons.
In addition, according to the American professor, the successful use of the HIMARS MLRS by Ukrainian troops obliges the United States to provide Kyiv with more such weapons. However, these systems are central to the US military itself. If their number is significantly reduced, then for the United States it will become a factor that may affect national security.
As a result, it is extremely difficult for the Pentagon to balance between helping allies and satisfying its own needs for weapons, since the US Army itself is now experiencing some shortage in the latter.
Based on the foregoing, Hal Brands concluded that the war in Ukraine showed that the United States was not ready for a military confrontation with China. At least it is obvious that today it will be extremely difficult for the Pentagon to maintain a full-fledged supply of the army in the event of a direct military clash with China over Taiwan. But the other day, Biden openly threatened China with military support for Taipei from Washington.
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