The Decoupling Gambit: What a China Trade Cutoff Would Cost the U.S. Military and Whether America Can Still Win (Economics) - Softcover

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China controls nearly ninety percent of the world's rare earth processing capacity — the magnets, semiconductors, and specialty alloys that go into everything from an F-35's actuators to a submarine's sonar. In 2025 and 2026, Beijing showed exactly how far it's willing to use that leverage, blacklisting American rare earth firms and choking off military-end-user licenses in a calculated, reversible campaign that rattled prices and slowed production across the defense-industrial base.

The Decoupling Gambit traces how that dependency formed, which weapons systems and production lines break first, and what it means for two wars America is already arming — Ukraine and the Gulf — before asking the harder question: what happens if the next flashpoint is Taiwan, and the supply cutoff isn't gradual but instant?

Drawing on Pentagon industrial-base assessments, congressional testimony, and the real 2025–2026 export control sequence, this book lays out exactly what reshoring, allied diversification, and strategic stockpiling would require — and how much time America actually has left to build it.

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