Niall Ferguson: How Cold War II Turns Hot
Call Me Back - with Dan Senor
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The US Defense Industrial Base Is Not Enough to Support a Protracted Conventional War
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has revealed that the military-industrial complex we used to grumble about has withered away. We are depleting very rapidly our stocks of ammunition and certain very important kinds of precision missile, he says. The two sides have quickly moved into a mid-20th century playbook of very, very heavy bombardments of one another,. "We are not in a position to supply that kind of conflict from our own stockpiles indefinitely"
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