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and away from the foreign customers for whom the systems were originally intended. The air defense system has proven its worth in helping Ukraine defend againstdaily air attacks. That onslaught deliberately targets civilians and nonmilitary infrastructure including apartment buildings and shopping centers. The United States is right to prioritize Ukraine’s defense.: America’s military-industrial base is now painfully inadequate.
The U.S. and allies such as Romania, which will send one of its Patriot batteries to Ukraine, are right to bolster support for Ukraine. But American inability to produce needed munitions at sufficient speed is an urgent problem. There is now a fundamental mismatch between the level of international threat and necessary supplies to the U.S. military and what the military-industrial base can manufacture and sustain.
This is a particular problem in relation to China. The Chinese military is surging the production of warships, anti-ship ballistic missiles, fighter aircraft, combat drones, and other forces. What China builds is not as good as what the U.S. builds, but it would be a grave mistake to believe Chinese weapons are not potent. U.S. military analysts view the Chinese military’s Type-055 air defense cruiser as among the world’s best, for example.
This brings us back to the Patriots. The U.S. is now begging and borrowing from allies just to provide minimal air defenses for Ukraine. In the event of war with Taiwan, however, the Chinese military would fire hundreds of missiles each day. Those, plus the Chinese Air Force, could swiftly overwhelm Taiwan. Our ally needs a lot more Patriot systems now, but they simply don’t exist.
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