In the eyes of many people, the differences between China and the United States have gone beyond ideology. It seems that the possibility of conflict between the two sides is 100%, and everything the United States is doing at present is to prepare for this upcoming "final war".
To make them feel very embarrassing, the United States of today is no longer in the Cold War, and the United States of America is still at its peak. Instead, the weakened version of the U.S. is deeply plunged into various supply chain crises and social division problems, so that some U.S. defense experts feel that the U.S. may only win through lasting wars in this more than 50 years of conflict.
Will the United States be able to fight a lasting war with China?
Bloomberg interviewed Palmer Leekey, president of the U.S. Defense Industry Group of Artificial Intelligence and Defense Industry, on October 10, for an in-depth analysis of the defense industry status quo facing the U.S. today. The confrontation between China and the United States this time is not an accidental result, but a conflict that has been brewing for more than 50 years. The current tariff confrontation will inevitably become a "long-term conflict" between China and the United States, so the U.S. defense industry must prepare for this.
In terms of strength, China currently "looks stronger in terms of overall production capacity" and "has the best software in the world" in the United States. Therefore, The United States must get rid of the influence of China's supply chain and further allow the United States to complete secondary industrialization, which means that the United States must have its own rare earth industry chain and produce its own chips and computers.
What needs to be added here is that while Anduria does not seem so famous compared to a weapons factory like Lockheed Martin, it represents the latest efforts of the U.S. military on artificial intelligence weapons, such as the YFQ44A, one of the U.S. military’s two drones. It is the product launched by Anduril, although in the technical level is far behind China, in the 93 parade exhibited two sixth generation aircraft, but it is also an important equipment for the U.S. military to unmanned intelligence.
Therefore, what Palmer said about the lasting battle, I am afraid, does not mean that we are referring to in the traditional sense of the battle, The meaning behind this means that the U.S. military has no possibility of defeating China in the short term, so it can only wait for the opportunity to promote the secondary industrialization of the United States itself.
What objective reality lies behind?
It should be said that the U.S. defense industry is actually facing the same problems as the U.S. manufacturing industry, the goods will not appear on the shelves, and the weapons and equipment will not appear in the ammunition warehouse. This requires a large amount of raw materials to manufacture, and the supporting industrial chain is the key among the keys. Over the past decade or so, the globalization of the U.S. industrial chain promoted by the U.S. Democratic Party has further led to the hollowing out of the United States.
This is not a problem at the time of the most powerful U.S. national power, but the political problems facing the U.S. today, coupled with the growing conflict with China, just a demand for ammunition needed to prepare for the war, has killed the U.S. production capacity.
In a sense, The so-called protracted war reflects more of a kind of helplessness behind it. The cycle of American recession will be very long, but the whole process will be very painful.