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Personal logo Editor in Chief Bill The Editor of TMP Fezian24 Apr 2024 12:06 p.m. PST

…"With the supplemental that just thankfully passed last night, we'll be at 100,000 rounds by next summer," Lt. Gen. James Mingus said at an event hosted by think-tank CSIS.

That's more than three times the 30,000 shells that the service's factories are expected to turn out this month, he said, and will represent a sixfold increase since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022…

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Wackmole924 Apr 2024 12:45 p.m. PST

in 16 months? We are so not the Arsonal of Democary anymore.

Micman Supporting Member of TMP24 Apr 2024 1:09 p.m. PST

Totally different time. If we saw Putin as Hitler was viewed in 1940s then I would be concerned over the response. We are not on a war footing, we have put more national effort to post 911 than Russia vs Ukraine.

Shagnasty Supporting Member of TMP24 Apr 2024 1:54 p.m. PST

We'd better be getting on a war footing. China, Russia and Iran are out there. Biden is no FDR.

Nine pound round24 Apr 2024 3:47 p.m. PST

Even FDR wasn't the FDR he is often thought to be. The US didn't start serious rearmament until 1940, and we were nowhere near ready when Pearl Harbor happened. The biggest reason that the war took three and a half years to finish after the US joined was that the first two were needed just to build up, organize and train sufficient forces to take down Germany and Japan.

James Richardson's "On the Treadmill to Pearl Harbor" is a worthwhile account; Richardson was embittered after his relief by Roosevelt, but he wasn't wrong to assert that the buildup wasn't as fast as it needed to be.

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