An amphibious assault vehicle rolls off the ramp of Military Sealift Command’s large, medium-speed, roll-on/roll-off ship USNS Pililaau at Laem Chabang, Thailand, as part of delivering equipment in support of Exercise Cobra Gold, Feb. 5, 2018. Navy photo by Grady T. Fontana
Defense News: The U.S. is wholly unequipped to resupply forces in a great-power conflict
The current American consumer goods crisis presages the effects of a militarized Sino-American confrontation.
Indeed, confrontation is increasingly imaginable, as China’s recent 150-aircraft violation of Taiwanese airspace indicates. A cross-strait conflict necessarily would involve the U.S. and its Pacific allies, and potentially regional rivals, including Vietnam and India. Given the sheer volume of global trade that transits the Indo-Pacific, a conflict would trigger a global depression unlikely to end until a systemic political realignment, much like the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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WNU Editor: This is a no brainer. You cannot fight a great-power war with only a few hundred resupply ships.
