Stronger Emphasis Needed on Re-shoring Defense Supply Chain

[rangerrebew]

Stronger Emphasis Needed on Re-shoring Defense Supply Chain
Defense Opinion
Sunday, May 31st, 2026
 
Stronger Emphasis Needed on Re-shoring Defense Supply Chain
 

When most people look at a piece of military hardware, say an F-35, they see a single unit – a jet fighter. But in reality, it is an almost unfathomably complex integration of thousands upon thousands of individual parts, each one crucial to the operation of the machine, the failure of any one of which could mean failure of the mission or the loss of an American servicemember.

The F-35’s engine alone is composed of more than 45,000 parts, each critical to the aircraft’s performance and many of which are manufactured overseas or contain raw materials that are mined in other countries, not all of whom have our best interests at heart.

It’s easy to see how this is a problem, especially as our military, along with those of our allies, are operating F-35s in the most critical conflict zones like the Persian Gulf – and it’s not limited to the F-35.

If we cannot produce the components needed for our most advanced weapon systems domestically, then we could find ourselves at the mercy of stalled global supply chains. Any number of complications at any time could interrupt the supply of materials from overseas, including geopolitical factors.

https://www.defensedaily.com/commentary/stronger-emphasis-needed-on-re-shoring-defense-supply-chain/

[DefiantMassRINO]

This was the Chinese Communist Party's plan all along ... use Global Climate Change, Globalist Trade, and Fentanyl Trafficking to de-fang and de-claw the U.S. in the Chi-com's effort for world domination.

[Timber Rattler]

It goes back to the Clinton era of the 1990s, when the ChiComs decided to steal U.S. technology and usurp its industrial base, assisted by the clueless Les Aspin, William Perry, and William Cohen, who dismembered the U.S. defense industry and defense infrastructure, particularly our shipyards.

Flashback:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Supper_(defense_industry)

[DefiantMassRINO]

The 90s were the halcion days of the Peace Dividend and military Reductions In Force and base closings.

... but, this alone did not drive our supply chains into the hands of our enemy, the Chinese Communist Party.

The Chi-coms used our short-sighted greed against us to steal technology and intellectual property.

The Globalists promised cheaper VCR's, DVD Players, and Sneakers, so, we let them hollow out American industries so those goods could be made by child slave labor, without labor laws, human rights, and pesky environmental laws to interfere with profits.

[Timber Rattler]

The 90s were the halcion days of the Peace Dividend and military Reductions In Force and base closings.

... but, this alone did not drive our supply chains into the hands of our enemy, the Chinese Communist Party.

The Chi-coms used our short-sighted greed against us to steal technology and intellectual property.

The Globalists promised cheaper VCR's, DVD Players, and Sneakers, so, we let them hollow out American industries so those goods could be made by child slave labor, without labor laws, human rights, and pesky environmental laws to interfere with profits.

Yeah, brings to mind Lenin's quote about selling Capitalists the rope with which Communists will hang them.

And Ross Perot was absolutely right about NAFTA and its giant "sucking sound" of U.S. jobs draining out to China and the 3rd World.