Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "Ukrainian Consequences: The New American War Model" video.

Though I'd say the lesson of industrial war consuming a lot of resources was learned long ago, it seems to keep being forgotten somehow. However, your statement overall does seem fairly insightful and I do think it's important to highlight how incredibly important it is to have the capacity to ramp up and down the production of munitions given how quickly consumables are depleted in war.
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@repo445-d4h The good thing is that the American industrial base is actively being increased and fairly rapidly as industry is currently flowing back to the USA (largely due to automation). However the expense of re-training the skilled workers seems to overall be a very low bar so long as it is able to be brought in. Also while the missiles are largely private entities, the munitions plants are all government owned meaning wage in this case is less of an issue
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Ah yes. Industrial wars consume resources incredibly quickly. This lesson was not an insight of this war but instead one forgotten from basically every other industrial conflict. It has always been costly but the ability to shift industry and men has been something industrial nations have always grappled with. The trick of today's wars is that the mobilization systems which existed prior to the world wars have largely degraded into nonexistence and thus in essence no country now truly goes into war prepared (the USA experienced this roughly every time it declared war of not being ready for war).
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