Need Military Hardware?

We’ve seen concern of late regarding re-building America’s military, though little appreciation on the varied difficulties of doing so, quickly.

I joined my extended family on Thanksgiving at my little sister’s, up the road in Flagstaff.  Her husband, Jim, until recently co-owned a mini-storage facility, and thereby accumulated quite a trove of miscellany from abandoned units.  Knowing my interest in history, he graciously (maliciously?) presented me a 1920’s era Swedish army helmet – and a link to the history of its development and eventual production:

https://www.world-war-helmets.com/fiche/Casque-Suedois-Mle-21-High (might have to copy and paste)

Note the time needed, and the complexity, of designing and producing something as straightforward as a helmet.  Consider how long it might take us to, say, produce a reasonable number of frigates to fend off, say, China.

Might be a while, this military re-building.