 "US will run out of missiles in war with China, lose the conflict, warns Congressional wargame")
The United States would lose a war with China after running out of missiles within days, according to a simulation organised by Congress.
In the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party simulation of a US-China armed conflict on Thursday (December 5), members of Congress as well as private experts flagged the inefficiency of the US defence industry in supplying the US military needs appropriately and the inability of the United States to win a war the conflict.
The warnings come at a time when China is ramping up aggression around Taiwan and other US partners in the Indo-Pacific region. Any armed conflict in the region is bound of rope in the United States as most of the nations in the region are US allies and partners — including the self-governing island of Taiwan.
We can’t win fight with China, warns top Congress member
John Moolenaar, who heads the House CCP committee, warned that the United States was not in a position to win a fight with China.
“Our defence industrial base lacks the capacity to deter and win a fight with the PRC,” said Moolenaar, referring to China by the formal name of People’s Republic of China (PRC), according to Washington Times.
Moolenaar, a Republican from Michigan, further said that US defence firms cannot innovate rapidly and supply chains for key defence components are vulnerable to China’s coercion and manipulation, as per the newspaper.
Echoing Moolenaar, Democratic Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Ranking Member of the House CCP committee, said that the simulation revealed significant gaps in US defence production capacity and flagged the reliance of US defence industry on minerals supplied by China.
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More Shorts“History tells us we need a healthy defense industrial base now to deter aggression and make sure the world’s dictators think again before dragging the US and the world into yet another disastrous conflict,” said Krishnamoorthi.
US will run out of missiles in a week in war with China, flags expert
Christian Brose, the Chief Strategy Officer at the arms maker Anduril Industries, told the committee that simulations show that the US military will run out of weapons in less than a week of war with China, according to Washington Times.
Brose went on to flag that the US aid to Ukraine meant that nearly a decade’s worth of US tactical weapons have been given to Ukraine.
“America and our allies increasingly lack the industrial capacity to deter —and, if necessary, fight and win— a great power conflict,” said Brose.
Brose’s comments echoed that of US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, who said on Wednesday (December 4) that the US weapons would exhaust “very rapidly” in case of a full-scale war with China.
“God forbid we end up in a full-scale war with the PRC. But any war with a country like the PRC, a military like the PRC, is going to involve the exhaustion of munition stockpiles very rapidly,” said Sullivan at an event hosted by Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
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