Rebuilding America’s Defense

Overlaying Yesteryear’s Blueprint on Today’s Challenges

Last week, we kicked off a June series focused on rebuilding America’s defense industrial base.

Last week’s edition looked at how America had to rebuild the base in the 1930s and 40s, and mobilize it for World War II.

Just as we mobilized in World War II to face down the Axis powers determined to bend the world to their fascist, expansionist worldview, we are now challenged to do the same in the face of an Axis of Autocracy. To be successful in deterring this new Axis—and potentially to defeat them if needed—we must once more mobilize our economy and industrial base.

This week, I want to pull the lessons that we explored last week forward to today and explore how they apply to today.