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To maintain deterrence in the Indo-Pacific, the United States must adopt a wartime industrial footing and rapidly scale the production and adoption of precise mass systems, say CFR experts in a new report.
Depleted U.S. stockpiles of exquisite, expensive, and difficult-to-produce weapons and platforms no longer ensure deterrence, particularly in the Taiwan Strait, they argue. Addressing this vulnerability requires urgent policy reform and scaling low-cost precise mass capabilities.
To chart this new course, the Council on Foreign Relations convened a group of experts, including former Pentagon officials, industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and others, to diagnose scaling challenges and make concrete policy recommendations for a two-year industrial sprint. Read their recommendations in a new report:
cfr.org/reports/out-of-ammo-a-two-year-sprint-to-rebuild-the-american-arsenal-and-deter-china
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To maintain deterrence in the Indo-Pacific, the United States must adopt a wartime industrial footing and rapidly scale the production and adoption of precise mass systems, say CFR experts in a new report.
Depleted U.S. stockpiles of exquisite, expensive, and difficult-to-produce weapons and platforms no longer ensure deterrence, particularly in the Taiwan Strait, they argue. Addressing this vulnerability requires urgent policy reform and scaling low-cost precise mass capabilities.
To chart this new course, the Council on Foreign Relations convened a group of experts, including former Pentagon officials, industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and others, to diagnose scaling challenges and make concrete policy recommendations for a two-year industrial sprint. Read their recommendations in a new report:
cfr.org/reports/out-of-ammo-a-two-year-sprint-to-rebuild-the-american-arsenal-and-deter-china
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