The American Defense Industrial Base (DIB) is languishing and despite the recognition of issues with the DIB years ago, growth and re-capitalization is proving hard.
A recent Issue of Foreign Affairs Magazine decried the situation in an article titled, “China Is Ready for War And Thanks to a Crumbling Defense Industrial Base, America Is Not.” The anemic DIB is a shadow of what it was in the Arsenal of Democracy 1.0 in World War II.
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John Mills ✉
Col. John Mills, ret., served 33 years in the Army and also as a senior civilian in government and at national security-related think tanks. He is the former director of cybersecurity policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.