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Workers at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Indian Head, Maryland, the only facility where torpedo fuel is produced for the U. S. Navy In the event of a late-2020s Chinese attempt to invade Taiwan, leading to a US-China military conflict, what would be the most urgent bottlenecks in military equipment? Where is there the greatest need to scale up defense manufacturing? I am not an expert in military matters, so take all this with a grain of salt. But I looked into this question and it seems to have a single clear-cut answer: energetics.