On the way out, Biden officials ask: How to fix America’s war machine?
By Noah Robertson
Jan 16, 2025, 01:30 PM
White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Feb. 11, 2022, in Washington. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden’s top national security adviser, didn’t enter office in 2021 thinking about America’s defense industry.
His first priorities were elsewhere: withdrawing from Afghanistan and writing a new national security strategy.
“The [defense industrial base] was not top of the list for me walking in the door,” Sullivan said Wednesday, using the government’s name for its supply of weapons.
He’s telling his successors not to do the same thing.
“Don’t wait a year or two years on it,” Sullivan said he’s advising the incoming team. “Let’s push now.”
https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2025/01/16/on-the-way-out-biden-officials-ask-how-to-fix-americas-war-machine/
