First of all a "military peer" just means a nation that has similar military capabilities/power as oneself. And right now China is the only military peer to NATO, that is just a fact.
Second China is also positioning itself as a military adversary to NATO and its allies in many ways. And that is not the interpretation of "congress", that is geopolitical reality.
Once the batteries of those things die (and they will die in short order) they are completely useless. Just small black bricks with a hint of gold on the outside.
Nope. The american stuff was stellar, and so was some of the german stuff (for their limited capabilities while being besieged), just not the soviet stuff (I mean, they just started industrializing 2 decades earlier).
Even if both sides had built the same machines, the side that pumps out 10x the amount will inevitably win.
The US won because of its truly massive industrial base that was equipped to develop and churn out military materials at a rate that is simply mind boggling.
Making it sound good wasn't part of the assignment.