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#PREVIEW: NATO: #ARSENAL: Conversation with colleaague Jeff McCausland, CBS News, asking is the industrial base of the US and allies adequate to the needs of a reawakened NATO? Ninety thousand NATO troops underway with all manner of hardware. Can it be

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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#PREVIEW: NATO: #ARSENAL: Conversation with colleaague Jeff McCausland, CBS News, asking is the industrial base of the US and allies adequate to the needs of a reawakened NATO? Ninety thousand NATO troops underway with all manner of hardware. Can it be supported in the event of conflict on the Baltic frontier? More later on this.

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Conversation with my colleague Colonel Jeff McCausen, CBS News, about the

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industrial base that supports NATO.

0:40.6

NATO is going through an exercise of 90,000 troops like right now, warships, warplanes, lots of

0:46.3

tanks, lots of equipment moving around in the cold.

0:49.8

It all comes from an industrial base that is judged inadequate. The stores of NATO have been

0:55.4

emptied for Ukraine conflict. There's nothing left. They've got to produce more of everything.

1:00.9

For all the nations of NATO, that means an industrial base that doesn't exist.

1:06.2

To rebuild that industrial base will cost time and money and it will require political leadership.

1:13.2

Here's Jeff McCausen, the United States Army retired, talking about the industrial base.

1:18.4

This goes for the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Space Force.

1:22.3

It is not, John.

1:24.0

It's not adequate, primarily from an industrial base standpoint.

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