The war in Ukraine and rising tensions over Taiwan have caused demand for high-tech, American-made weapons to surge. And with the ongoing supply chain crunch and inflation continuing to rise, military industry watchers question whether the U.S. defense sector can keep up.
āWe canāt rely on China to build components for our weapons, which is to some extent, potentially what we have done ā whether knowingly or not,ā said Elbridge Colby, co-founder and principal of The Marathon Initiative.
Even with the largest defense budget in the world, the U.S. military is not immune to supply chain challenges. But with an already massive budget and questions on Pentagon spending, some critics think that more funds may not be the answer.
āNext yearās national security budget will likely be nearly a trillion and a half dollars,ā said Julia Gledhill, an analyst at the Center for Defense Information at the Project On Government Oversight. āAnd Congress wants to add tens of billions of dollars to that number, despite the fact that the Department of Defense has shown time and again that itās not managing its finances effectively.ā
Identifying inefficiencies and moving forward with programs that work, while sidelining those that do not, could be one way to address the problems that have plagued previous big-budget Pentagon
initiatives. The Department of Defense did not respond to CNBCās request for comment for this story.
āI donāt think that this necessarily means weāre going to blow the top off of the defense budget,ā said Chris Dougherty, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. āItās probably more about developing an ability to scale and ramp production, when and where itās needed.ā
Watch the video above to find out more about the challenges the U.S. defense industry faces, and the potential solutions to break through supply chain bottlenecks and budgetary constraints.
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How War In Ukraine And Taiwan Tensions Caused A Supply Chain Crunch For US Defense Industry
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Defense budget can be adversely impacted by China selling $trillion holding of US treasury securities too, in addition to rare earth supply dependence. Rare earth refining capacity in California cannot be rejuvenated in just a few years. Biden said will directly involved in Taiwan. Russia surely wants Taiwan started.
US defense budget alone can eradicate povertyš„£ from the face of the world !!!
Only 800 javelin missiles can be made per year. Years of inventory cleared out, probably most of them going to unfriendly hands by capture or black market sale.
Eliminate all the incredible waste and inefficiencies. Far too many fat cats in the chain of command. Free tax payer money that's WHY!
The military industrial complex which Eisenhower warned us against way back in the '50's wins again. Reagan started bankrupting our country back in the 80's when instead of raising taxes to pay for his ill conceived military buildup which caused 2 TRILLION in debt for the US, he lowered taxes instead. It has been all downhill from there.
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Ukraine got zero modern tanks, zero jet fighter, zero ships, zero helicopters, zero heavy drones. Ukraine got 4 air defense, 15 HIMARS. West – "We're out of weapons".
There hasn't been a single year where we haven't increased the military budget.
The military-industrial complex is playing all of us and the fact that they have bipartisan support is depressing.
You want to defer DoD fund to build a wall, guess what happens next?
They're telling the cattlemen to shut up. Here's why.
https://youtu.be/vC83OLq2_9c
I hope her response at 5:11 is reviewed when another country passes the United States and puts pressure on them.
See how it works out for her when she's scratching for heat during the winter or food throughout the year. Hell if another superpower takes over international trade might look increasingly different.
But it's nice to make comments from the cheap seats.
Democracy and corruption goes hand in hand
We don't need f**** China. Bring the job back home, to the continent of North America. So, that Canada and Mexico can help us produce goods.
By Watching this that Us is facing this problem and I am depressed for my country.
Time for the free world to pivot their supply chains away from China to India
Such a good thing that the largest business in the World, the USA armed forces, have no corruption.
the defense budget is a big money laundering scheme. but what can we do? nothing
The United States might spend more on defense than the next nine largest spenders but the cost of building things is higher than in Russia or China so it's not an apples to apples comparison.
The Democrats and Republicans are exactly the same on spending crazy amounts of money on weapons of destruction. They fight only about Domestic issues like homeless people, healthcare, social security, taxes. I really wish we could get rid of both Political parties and start over. Only thing people vote for now is the lesser evil. We vote against a Political party.
See my problem is , I had to pause the video right when I heard brazil wants 75m worth of javelin systems. Why in the hell are we working with brics members……they are the ones pushing for global dominance? And I know we work with other current brics members but does anyone else see thats got bad business all over it ? Idk
Money Laundering that REALLY WORKS.
Why put a stop to it ?
Wide spread support from EVERY congressmen and senators.
Interesting topic… as American military strategists have been planning to fight in two ways, it's the lousy supply chain might fail us. Not surprised…
Over priced military equipment, wssted material, corrupted relation between arm dealers and politicians, greedy capitalism can all lead to the downfall of a super power.
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Whatās the rush? China is not going to invade America. No one is. All these weapons are only for America to threaten and invade the rest of the world.
U.s is a Soldier of IMF so nothing Worry
Why does Brazil need Javelin missiles ? Who is sending tanks into Brazil ?
You need himars javelins m777 these are the weapons which turned the tide of war in Ukraine
US has the highest no of incarcerated individuals worldwide at 2.1 million (China has 1.7 M, India 0.5 M)
Leader of the 'free world' huh !
The video is wrongly titled. It's more about structural problems of US as a production hub in defence sector.
Goddamn Julia, looking fine AF.
There was no war in Taiwan for so many years, don't meddle it.
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I don't think anyone cares what a 12 year old girl thinks about defense. Go ahead a delete this video for everyone's good.
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God, stop throwing money at the DOD. Iām not against budget increases, but have some efficiencies
Silly question but why would supply chains issues halt production of military gear? Shouldn't every part of a vital military resource be built by the country it is to be used by?
I mean I can imagine that you don't bother with things like screens or keyboards but circuit boards and chips really should be produce using a secure production chain so as to not introduce opportunities for a foreign government to introduce hardware hacks into your high tech weapons. If they already do this what in the world has gotten stuck in the supply chain, everything else should be easier than that to produce locally?
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Ukraine is not in North America, let EU solve the Ukraine issue.
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The principle for US is ignite wars here and there. Change your way of thinking! Peace is the sustainable way. You can not be No. 1 forever.
Another words: CORRUPTIONS
More money to pay tax democracy of America!!! more tax to people…
The democratis wast so much money in this Country.
They think we have all the money in the World. Which We Don't.
The democratis are out to Bankrupt and Destroy America. This Great Country. And They Don't Care!!
They have No Conscience.
No Wisdom. No Common Sense. They couldn't even pass the "AMERICAN CITIZEN TEST."
They Want Other Countries To Come In and Take Over. And Turn America Into a Third World Socialist Communists Dictatorship Country. Where the democratis think they are going to get Rich. š¤
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To The Dumbest Country In The World. It's "AMERICA FIRST!!!" Everyone Else Is Second. If at all.
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We Have The Mental Patients,
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