The Fatal Flaw Undermining America’s Defense Industrial Base

– The US DoD published its first National Defense Industrial Strategy report, detailing major problems preventing America from mobilizing its industry to out-compete Russia and China;

– Most problems identified by the report stem from the DoD’s dependence on private industry, yet private industry itself was never identified as a problem;

– The foreign and domestic policy is based on profit-driven prioritizing, creating industry that pursues profits at the cost of fulfilling that industry’s role in providing goods and services for society;

– Russia and China maintain massive state-owned enterprises not only to manufacturing arms and ammunition, but also downstream suppliers for providing raw materials and goods;

References:

NEO – Fatal Flaws Undermine America’s Defense Industrial Base (February 15, 2024):
https://journal-neo.su/2024/02/15/fat…

US Department of Defense – The National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS) (2023):
https://www.businessdefense.gov/NDIS….

NY Times – Russia Overcomes Sanctions to Expand Missile Production, Officials Say (September 2023):
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/us…

RFE/RL – Satellite Images Suggest Russia Is Ramping Up Production Capacity For Its War Against Ukraine (November 2023):
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-rampin…

RUSI – Russian Military Objectives and Capacity in Ukraine Through 2024 (February 13, 2024):
https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-rese…

The National Interest – MBT-70 – The German-American Super Tank That Never Came to Be (April 2021):
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reb…

The Guardian – ‘A lot higher than we expected’: Russian arms production worries Europe’s war planners (February 15, 2024):
https://www.theguardian.com/world/202…