DECLINE IS A CHOICE: U.S. Not Ready to Quickly Produce and Ship Weapon Systems, Panel Says. “The United States no longer has the capacity to quickly produce needed wartime assets, like 155 mm artillery shells, or to repair vital sophisticated systems, like radar, rapidly in theater, a panel of expert logisticians said last week.”

Better to discover this shortfall during somebody else’s shooting war, but the question remains whether we’re still serious enough to devote the resources to correct it.