The U.S. Isn’t Ready for a Modern War
A USAF F-35 fighter jet breaks the sound barrier. “If we ever had to fight World War III, the U.S. wouldn’t be ready,” Elliot Ackerman writes for The Free Press. (Andrej Tarfila via Getty Images)
Today, a $3,000 drone can take out a $10 million tank. When will the American military learn that lesson, asks veteran Elliot Ackerman.
Two years ago, I was invited to lunch in Washington with Gilman Louie, a tech venture capitalist. He was in town to discuss the passage of the CHIPS Act, a $53 billion reinvestment in America’s semiconductor supply chain. Gilman believed that the offshoring of tech manufacturing was a dire national security issue. His concerns were many—from the vulnera…
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