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Next Steps for DoD to End US Reliance on China for Rare Earth Elements
AD Commentary In becoming a majority shareholder of MP Materials, the Trump administration demonstrated the salutary thought that no radical free-market orthodoxy should prevent the United States from taking decisive action, including direct investment of taxpayer dollars, to secure domestic sources of industrial materials vital to our national defense.
Next Steps for DoD to End U.S. Reliance on China for Rare Earth Elements
In becoming a majority shareholder of MP Materials, the Trump administration demonstrated the salutary thought that no radical free-market orthodoxy should prevent the United States from taking decisive action, including direct investment of taxpayer dollars, to secure domestic sources of industrial materials vital to our national defense.
Next Steps for DoD to End U.S. Reliance on China for Rare Earth Elements
In becoming a majority shareholder of MP Materials, the Trump administration demonstrated the salutary thought that no radical free-market orthodoxy should prevent the United States from taking decisive action, including direct investment of taxpayer dollars, to secure domestic sources of industrial materials vital to our national defense.
¿Cómo acabara EE. UU. con la dependencia en tierras raras de China?
Opinión Al convertirse en accionista mayoritario de MP Materials, la administración Trump demostró la saludable idea de que ninguna ortodoxia radical del libre mercado debería impedir que Estados Unidos tomara medidas decisivas, incluida la inversión directa de los dólares de los contribuyentes, para asegurar las fuentes nacionales de materiales industriales vitales para nuestra defensa nacional.
End the Program Manager Shuffle to Renew DoD Acquisition
The spate of congressional oversight hearings this spring on major defense acquisition programs gives even the casual observer déjà vu. In what is now an annual ritual, lawmakers and top brass lament ballooning costs and missed deadlines. Many of America’s most vital weapons modernization plans are stuck in an endless loop, leading to shockingly lower output and availability than several decades ago. Self-inflicted wounds within DoD are often the culprit.
End the Program Manager Shuffle to Renew DoD Acquisition
End the Program Manager Shuffle to Renew DoD Acquisition The spate of congressional oversight hearings this spring on major defense acquisition programs gives even the casual observer déjà vu Read Full Article »
Trump’s defense-acquisition executive order hits the right notes
Insights & Reports President Trump’s April 9 executive order, “Modernizing Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base,” hits the right notes and endorses the right approaches. After decades of ever-new studies, commissions, and legislation to streamline the defense acquisitions process—followed by halting and sporadic Defense Department implementation—it is encouraging to see a commander-in-chief directly tell the Pentagon to get on with it.
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Reauthorize the Defense Production Act, but make changes for the 21st century
During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the world learned of a little-known Pentagon tool known as the Defense Production Act. Four years late, the DPA has become a go-to for goosing the industrial base as needed. In this new op-ed, former Pentagon official Jeb Nadaner writes that the 2025 deadline to reauthorize the DPA should serve as a chance to reinvent it for current needs.
Reauthorize the Defense Production Act, but make changes for the 21st century
During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the world learned of a little-known Pentagon tool known as the Defense Production Act. Four years late, the DPA has become a go-to for goosing the industrial base as needed. In this new op-ed, former Pentagon official Jeb Nadaner writes that the 2025 deadline to reauthorize the DPA should serve as a chance to reinvent it for current needs.
Ukraine and Conservative Discontents: The Case for Arming Kiev
Ukrainian soldiers fire artillery towards Russian positions near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022. (AP Photo/LIBKOS) Some nationally minded conservatives regard U.S. military aid to Ukraine as yet another internationalist DC foreign policy crusade conducted at the expense of taxpayers and potentially American lives.
The Case for Arming Ukraine Is Clear
Some nationally minded conservatives regard U.S. military aid to Ukraine as yet another internationalist DC foreign policy crusade conducted at the expense of taxpayers and potentially American lives. A closer look suggests that if pursued properly, well-targeted military and intelligence aid to Ukraine can directly serve U.S. interests and security in the best traditions of American realism and restraint.
Record Defense Budget Flunks the China Test
One consolation of the $1.7 trillion 2023 spending bill was a bipartisan Congress providing several tens of billions of dollars over the President’s narrow defense request. While most lines of that $858 billion defense appropriation are necessary, it fails in its totality. The record budget folds before our most important national security test: to rescue our precarious Pacific posture. The bill rightly seeds pioneering capabilities that will be fielded in quantities in the 2030s.
2/1/23 National Security News and Commentary
Informal Institute for National Security Thinkers and Practitioners Quotes of the Day: 1. To Solve a Problem, You Need to Define It…Accurately 2. Preparing for strategic competition: The need for irregular warfare professional military education 3. Record Defense Budget Flunks the China Test 4. RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JANUARY 31, 2023 5. DOJ Reveals New Iran-backed Assassination Attempt on Iranian American Journalist 6.
A National Conservative Case for Arming Ukraine
America’s task is a fine balance: provide Kyiv with enough weapons to withstand Russia’s assault while not providing such types as to spark a general nuclear war. Some nationally minded conservatives regard U.S. military aid to Ukraine as yet another internationalist D.C. foreign policy crusade conducted at the expense of taxpayers and potentially American lives.
Forging China-Resistant Supplier Compacts
Attribution: Jeffery Jeb Nadaner, “Forging China-Resistant Supplier Compacts,” ORF Issue Brief No. 547, May 2022, Observer Research Foundation. Introduction Over the last two decades, the People’s Republic of China has aggressively pursued a dominant position in the global political and economic system.
Forging China-Resistant Supplier Compacts
This article is part of the series — Raisina Files 2022. Over the last two decades, the People’s Republic of China has aggressively pursued a dominant position in the global political and economic system. This will enable it to make the lion’s share of the world’s key goods, including microelectronics, advanced materials for batteries and energy storage, new energy technologies, and permanent magnets.
Taking Stock of Semiconductors
A recent Commerce Department survey found that U.S. manufacturers had only five days’ worth of the semiconductors needed to sustain production lines (compared to a roughly forty days-supply just three years ago). In 2021, many U.S. auto assembly lines nearly shut down from a global supply crunch on the semiconductors now ubiquitous in modern cars and much else in American life.
Reviving Heavy Industry Is Path to Sustainability
Reviving Heavy Industry Is Path to Sustainability Policy makers have a chance to improve national security, revitalize the U.S. economy and combat climate change Read Full Article »
The Next Chapter of "Made in America"
Credit: iStock photo By Jeffrey “Jeb” Nadaner, Ph.D. Listen closely and you’ll hear the sound of global supply chains snapping across the Western world. This crisis is affecting a whole range of products from automobiles to natural gas stocks to artificial Christmas trees, resulting in empty shelves, higher prices, and stalled construction and assembly lines. And the crisis will probably get worse before it gets better in the coming months.
Reviving U.S. heavy industry would build a safer, more sustainable world
Last weekend marked the 20 th anniversary of what was arguably the most strategically consequential event of the new millennium: the People's Republic of China joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) with the assent of the U.S. and other advanced democracies. Notwithstanding more access to cheaper consumer goods, there are many reasons for Americans to have "buyer's remorse" two decades later.
Reduce the Pentagon’s Dependence on China by Recharging US Battery, Electronics Industry
It is long past time to wean American defense systems off high-tech supply chains originating in or dominated by China. Congress should act to encourage this in two product areas in particular. First, batteries. Large and small, they form a crucial component in many critical U.S. military systems: submarines, surface warships, 5th-generation jet fighters; P-8 surveillance aircraft; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems; satellites, and much more.
A 21st Century Defense Industrial Strategy for America
A researcher displays a silicon wafer, an essential material used in the production of semiconductors and other technologies critical to US national security. (Getty Images) Getty Images View PDF In many ways, Americans have every reason to be confident about our national security future. The American military is still the most powerful in the world. Its leading defense industry companies are still global leaders in weapons innovation and production.
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