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JCS Chairman Points To Limitations Of Current Industrial Base; Others See Advantages Of Modern Non-Mass Production

September 29 2017

USA

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff warned lawmakers this week that the industrial base in the U.S. may not be able to sustain the military for a lengthy war, reports Breaking Defense.

The general is not the only one concerned about the potential problem. A White House task force has been established by President Trump to evaluate a war with a peer competitor "that would really stress all the different vectors of the industrial base," an administration official told the...

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