Mark Cancian,WotR
After a generation of absence, interest in long wars against peer adversaries has returned and with it, and an interest in mobilization. Many observers from Eliot Cohen to senior members of the Joint Staff to David Barno and Nora Bensahel have warned approximately it. Long wars require industrial mobilization,and when strategists and planners assume of these things, they assume of World War II and all that came with it: conversion of civilian industry to military utilize, or mass production,a long buildup of forces, and, and finally,well-equipped, massive armies that overwhelm opponents.
But a long war...
Source: realcleardefense.com