Rob Greenway

Yeah, it equates to defeat.

Now, on our side, for fuel, we have sufficient fuel, but we don't have the throughput capacity.

We can't transport it.

And we haven't even requested the assets to do it.

And that's in an uncontested or mildly contested environment.

If it's seriously contested, and it probably would be, we definitely don't have the assets to get it there.

And so we make recommendations to expand our strategic petroleum reserve to fill it first to capacity and then make sure the infrastructure is on the West Coast where it's required.

But we also don't have the vessels, the ships, the transport, and we haven't even ordered them.

And these are problems, the worst problems are the ones you haven't identified and for which there is no corrective action.

And this report, unfortunately, is full of them.

Now, on the Chinese side for fuel, they have a 1.2 billion barrel.

Actually, I think it's 1.3 billion barrel strategic petroleum reserve, which gives them an enormous shock absorber in a conflict scenario.

And again, their commute to work in a Taiwan first island chain, second island chain conflict is much shorter than ours.

We're going the other side of the planet.

And our demand for resources is going to be higher.

Now, so from a fuel perspective, specific actions and recommendations we make will get them to reduce that, and the report details it.

Ammunition-wise, they've been actively expanding their inventory of long-range precision munitions, the things you need most.

And so they have an advantage, but it's slight, and they also have several external dependencies which we could exploit.

On our side, munitions, it is a stockpile issue.

It is also a throughput issue.