Rare Earth Wars: U.S. General Sounds Alarm Over China's Military Leverage

On November 3, retired four-star General Jack Keane, the Army's former Vice Chief of Staff, put a warning on the record: China "has made clear it is prepared to use [America’s] dependence as leverage." The dependence he's talking about is America's reliance on Chinese rare earths. And he didn't say it from a cable news set. He said it as a director of REalloys [NASDAQ: ALOY], the company the Army recently selected for exclusive negotiations to build a plant to process dysprosium and terbium on one of its own military bases. And the timing…