80 JFSanders: I fear you’re right. WWII buildup of US military materiel was based on peacetime plants shifting from sewing machines to machine guns, from farm trucks and tractors to jeeps and tanks. Do we have that industrial base today? I doubt it. Plus the gear nowadays depends heavily on electronics and software systems which come from everywhere, much of it overseas. In a fight the shipments will cease. The blueprints will be an ocean away. The skill sets likewise.

Wal-mart nation has very little self-defense capability. Might take a generation to build it. But we’ll have only a few months or weeks.