from The Epoch Times:
A congressional report found that ’the U.S. military lacks both the capabilities and the capacity required to be confident it can deter and prevail in combat.’
The U.S. military lacks the required capabilities to preserve the nation’s strategic interests and could lose a potential war against China, a congressional report suggests.
The report, published on July 30 by the Commission on the National Defense Strategy, found that “the U.S. military lacks both the capabilities and the capacity required to be confident it can deter and prevail in combat.”
“The Commission finds that the U.S. defense industrial base (DIB) is unable to meet the equipment, technology, and munitions needs of the United States and its allies and partners,” the report reads.
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Eric Edelman, vice chair for the commission, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on July 30 that China’s communist regime is outpacing the United States in military development.
He said that could increase the likelihood of a conflict between the two powers and the likelihood of the United States losing.
“There is potential for a near-term war and a potential that we might lose such a conflict,” Edelman said.
“We found that China is in many ways outpacing the U.S.,” he said. “While we still have the strongest military in the world with the farthest global reach, when we get to 1,000 miles of China’s shore, we start to lose our military dominance and could find ourselves on the losing end of a conflict.”
To that end, Mr. Edelman underscored that the growing strategic partnerships between China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia are a “major strategic shift” that U.S. defense planners failed to fully account for.
He said that with those four authoritarian regimes working together against the United States in an unprecedented way, the United States could face a global conflict that would stretch all of its resources thin.
“It makes each of those countries potentially stronger militarily, economically, and diplomatically, and potentially can weaken the tools we have at our disposal to deal with them,” Edelman said.
“And it makes it more likely that a future conflict, for instance in the Indo-Pacific, would expand across other theaters, and that we would find ourselves in a global war that is on the scale of the Second World War.”
Therefore, the commission’s report calls on Congress and the various government departments to “rewrite laws and regulations to remove unnecessary barriers to adopting innovation, budgeting, and procurement” in pursuit of increased deterrence.
