Originally Posted by
WE Branch Fanatic
As a SHAPE-sponsored operational and tactical level live exercise, STDE21 will train and evaluate a wide range of NATO and national force elements. Focused on the reinforcement of continental Europe from North America, NATO will exercise its ability to secure the Strategic Lines of Communication which link our continents.
Why would empty ships be sailing?
Was thinking that their cargo has been held up and not shipped from China....
Modern semiconductor electronics are largely made in Taiwan and Korea, with the US now providing less than half the output of either of those two. At the low end, China produces 10 times the steel tonnage annually the US does.
Just what technical superiority does NATO think it has or will have in another decade to offset massive industrial inferiority?