More than a decade before American troops fought their way ashore in Normandy and Okinawa, the U.S. military noted that “the success of a modern fighting force is directly and immediately dependent on the ability of the Nation’s resources to satisfy promptly its requirement in munitions.”Eighty years later, the Defense Department has not lived up to that maxim. With arms transfers to Ukraine and military operations in the Red Sea exposing the deficiencies of U.S. arms production, Washington is awash with recommendations to bolster, strengthen, or otherwise revitalize the defense industrial base.But these may be too little and too late.
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