WWII Showed How Strong American Manufacturing Is the Foundation of American Freedom 

@@danielmcelroy8533 We are not the only one in that predicament! Look at Russia!

Not fair is good, right?

Germany, Japan and Italy had prepared for military action for many years before the "World War" started (arguably Japan had been preparing for decades). The US, USSR, Britain and France had sat on their hands since the early 1920s, with the USSR even conducting major purges of the Red Army from 1936 to 1938.

@@owensomers8572 The one thing people immediately forget about WWI when discussing WWII is how terrible the war had been for countries like France and Britain. It's always brought up when speaking about the Great War, but so easily dismissed when WWII is involved. Simply put trying to beat the war drum in those days was pure political suicide. There was also the small matters of the Great Depression and there being a massive rupture between the pre-1914 world and the interbellum. The money that used to go to military buildup finally went to helping people. In many ways the person who went to war in 1939 lived in a more prosperous society, they were generally healthier than those who went into battle in 1914. France deduced quite correctly that defensive works were a major obstacle that could not easily be overcome if you had no vulnerable flanks. When building the Maginot line on top of keeping military parity with Germany, they forgot to secure the flanks in a proper manner. Britain had a massive empire to police and the cost was becoming insane. Germany, Japan and Italy were able to beat the military drum and survive politically by cancelling democracy. We always get mentions that a majority of people in the US were against going to war. But people had similar feelings in Germany and Italy or France and Britain. Nobody of sane mind likes to go to war unless the need arises. The US did learn one lesson from the Great War, in that they were unable to get their own industry sorted out for wartime production. Massive plans were made to lay the groundwork of a fast and massive shift in industrial production. Calling out the Army for being small is another misrepresentation. The US had little need for a massive army, in the same way you don't criticize Poughkeepsie for not having one of the top three international airports in the world. The US did have a massive fleet, which was far more important to US needs than the army which at best would to fend off invasions from Canada or Mexico. Italy was too poor and lacked the industrial capacity to play the role it tried to get. Japan built an impressive military arm and planned every step all the way to Pearl Harbor and then their planning becomes a comedy of errors, they become the dog that catches the car and has no clue what to do next. Germany was fantastic at crushing all it's neighbours in limited border wars, but once it tried imperialistic power projection and invaded the USSR they only had 16 weeks of total operational freedom. After that they start to demotorize their army because they don't have the fuel reserves to keep going at the same rate.

During the war Nazi-germany and Japan brutally pressed out the countries they have occupied/conquered.Not to forget the Nazi-State was build on depts(for armament and the social benefits the Nazis sweetened up the dictatorship for the germans). Today Nazi-Germany would be rated on trash-level.If the Nazis would not be defeated, they would have went bancrupt sooner or later.

@@owensomers8572 One of Hitler`s biggest misconceptions was, that he regarded USSR still as an underdeveloped agriculture country, tsarist russia was. In reality Stalin built up a huge heavy industry that was able to produce quite modern weapons and ammo, but he ruined russian/soviet agriculture(Russia was before 1914 the biggest exporter of grain in the world) by his nuts collectivs and wiping out independent farmers(Kulacks).The delivery of food and grain from the US and Canada helped the USSR probably more to survive and win than thousands of tanks and trucks via lent and lease.Otherwise the evil Nazi-plan to starve the USSR to death may have worked.

I'd have to agree that the time of US centric manufacturing is over. You can't bring back these kinds of consumer goods manufacturing to the US without increasing prices. I can't remember the last election where "the other guy did/will make prices go up" wasn't a core part of the campaign. Thankfully, the US still has a strong auto and military industry. That at least gives us a chance to replicate the mass conversion of civilian industry to military.

it started under clinton in his 2 terms. remember ross perot talking about the giant sucking sound of jobs going overseas if nafta was adopted? unfortunately bush did nothing to stop it and OWEbomba made it that much worse.

You mean like that Carrier plant in Indiana that Trump was going to save, that moved to Mexico (and there are plenty of other examples)? Yeah, blame Obama.

Until AOC just impeached SCOTUS members.

Assuming you are talking about the US, that is nonsense. First off, in the event of a shooting war (as opposed to the limited objective police actions the US has been involved in for the last 7 decades) the US military, with its current man power and inventory, would rapidly defeat any attackers. Not that it would be necessary, but there is expansive manufacturing capability available in the US, there are tremendous stock piles of materiel and munitions, and there is an extensive pool of reservists in the form of recently (last 4 years) separated military members. Barring all that, many older veterans would volunteer to return to service (although would need some refresher training), and there is selective service in place if a draft was ordered, and extensive training capability to build up new forces if necessary. But you keep on blowing snot bubbles if it makes you feel better!

@@owensomers8572 You must have been asleep for the past 30 years or so. Never heard of outsourcing . Hmm. Despite your pompous verbiage, you are economically illiterate if you truly believe the USA has the manufacturing ability and the population with requisite engineering & manufacturing skills.

probably more than you think. though the parts pipeline certainly is more globalized than back then.

Completely wrong. We dominate the key industries (semis, aircraft, spacecraft, rockets, etc).

@@Mike_Oxhuge_ Sure junior, sure. Keep smoking your "medical marijuana"! Hahahaha

March 1944 was peak US production, 9,000 aircraft produced. Through the war the Axis (including proxies like Romania and Finland) produced 158,000 aircraft, the US produced 300,000, the rest of the allies produced about 100,000.

which is why our public indoctrination system is so flawed and ineffective.

Absolutely!! Thank you all American Allies. Didn't mean to suggest otherwise.

all the usas manufacturing prowess would have been for naught had it not been for the bulwark of britian, its commonwealth, france, the chinese, and the ussr. by the same measure their sacrifices wouldve been for naught had the usa not been involved with its industrial might. it was a team effort! i never forget that and neither do most the the historically minded people i know.

I have heard that argument before, but guess who Germany's biggest trading partner was in 1939!

@@mahbriggs which have you heard? I dont think either is original, if about manufacturing abilities, noone question's early german machining abilities. The us advantage is we have the size and resources locally. If talking trade ford and gm stayed involved helping germany until they werent legally allowed and up to winning lawsuits post war for damages to truck factories built to make trucks for germany during the war

@@2fwelding842 which have I heard? What was the choice? Is our heavy manufacturing capability no longer what it was? I don't think there is an y question about that. Was Germany capable of producing equipment with very close tolerances! Of course! But they could not mass produce it! When America began to mass produce the Merlin engine, we had to completely redo the blue prints and specifications because the British as did the Germans relied on highly skilled crafts men, an as a consequence were unable to produce in quantity! American industrialist had developed machines and processes to meet the same Hugh quality, but by using relatively u skilled labor!. I hope that answers toys question, if it doesn't, you are going to have to be more specific@

Detroit’s manufacturers generated 25% of the national military production during WW2. 25% - one city.

The Detriot Industrial region which was much more then just a city. The Tri Cities on the bay (Saginaw, Bay City and Midland) through Flint, Pontiac and down throught Ypislanti and into Detriot. Steel, copper, bauxite and chemicals arrived in the Tri Cities and left refined down to the heavy forges, mills and casting facilities in Flint and Pontiac and then headed to Ypislanti and Detriot to be assembled into planes, trucks tanks and munitions Had the government not sold us out the Nixon and later Regan sold us out to the Chinese along with Pittsburgh and Chicago and countless other north eastern and midwestern towns.

The vast majority of the CCP's equipment is still knock offs of the Soviet stock being destroyed in Ukraine. And CCP has to maintain the majority of its forces in China to keep the population behaved.

"Looks at where materials come from..." Maybe not so much.

The most BS statement ever.

@@jmullner76 Much of that "manufacturing" has already left China for cheaper producers in India, Vietnam, Indonesia and other places. Don't expect too much from China.

thats not true. up until fairly recently we were creating and propping up chinas economy. china would still be a largely rural backwater were it not for the usa sending all its manufacturing there. the thing is the chinese ccp culture prevents chinese manufacturing from being sub standard. the climate the ccp creates engenders Cha bu duo (ie good enough) and mei you ban fa (theres nothing to be done about it) which translate into crap products. you think the chinese stuff is crap that you and i buy is crap? well they send the good stuff here. the domestic material is just garbage. including the military. i agree about the nafta subversion. i can still hear perot talking about the giant sucking sound as us manufacturing goes overseas.