Is the Industrial Base on a Wartime Footing? A Progress Report

The Pentagon first outlined the goal of putting the United States industrial base on a “wartime footing”— the condition of being prepared to deter and, if necessary, prevail in a protracted conflict—in November 2025. What steps have government and industry taken since then to make this ambition a reality?.... Yet industrial plans are not the same as results, and isolated bursts of investment are not the same as institutionalized industrial power. The time scales needed to deliver several critical munitions, for example, depleted after the war in Iran, continue to stretch more than three years. Though investment announcements have risen...