All The Expanded Shipyard Capacity Won't Help Us If We Don't Do This First

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All The Expanded Shipyard Capacity Won't Help Us If We Don't Do This First
By Commander Salamader
July 28, 2025
 
Its not industrial planning, it is national survival.

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There has been a growing awareness over the last couple of years—and especially the last year—about the “rare earth element” challenge.

It is more than a challenge, it is a problem. Why a problem? Global supply systems, etc...

Those who know the industrial history of WWII will know that despite of their technological skills, the Germans could not produce the number and quality of the weapons they wanted to because they could not source sufficient critical “exotic” raw materials—not to mention just fuel. As a result, they could produce only a few and those they could produce, such as jet engines, had to use lesser materials and did not last as long.

The Japanese, as an island nation with few raw materials but human capital, struggled with even the basics once the peacetime “global supply chain” became but a memory.

Their problems weren’t that they didn’t know they had a problem accessing materials at the start of the war, as they had stockpiled cobalt, vanadium, titanium, tungsten, chromium, molybdenum, and other exotic metals. The Germans even had access to some usable deposits in some of the conquered lands such as France and the Balkans, the Japanese in China. However, they did not stockpile for a long war, and by 1943 allied interdiction of sea and ground lines of communication made getting materials to their increasingly bombed-out industrial areas exceptionally difficult and inefficient.

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[DefiantMassRINO]

Most private-sector inventory systems are based upon just-in-time methodology.  Their supply chain and inventory management systems preclude stockpiling.  These are done to maximize enterprise capital efficiency.

Biden sold off the 'Strategic Perroleum Reserve' for short-term political gain.

Years ago, the Federal Government sold off the national Helium reserves.

America's current risk-reward regime favors tactical efficiency over strategic planning.

A large amount of stuff  just sitting in a pile is seen as ineffiicient.

[Smokin Joe]

Most private-sector inventory systems are based upon just-in-time methodology.  Their supply chain and inventory management systems preclude stockpiling.  These are done to maximize enterprise capital efficiency.

Biden sold off the 'Strategic Perroleum Reserve' for short-term political gain.

Years ago, the Federal Government sold off the national Helium reserves.

America's current risk-reward regime favors tactical efficiency over strategic planning.

A large amount of stuff  just sitting in a pile is seen as ineffiicient.

Seems to me (IIRC), that stuff in the pile is inventory and subject to taxation (the reason for year-end inventory reduction sales). If it isn't mined or processed yet, that saves money.

Unless I'm wrong, some tax law changes might be in order to facilitate larger supplies on hand.