Manufacturing Integral to US National Security

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A new report claims that improving the United States’ manufacturing position is necessary to ensure the country’s national security.

From the Politicus USA story:

Manufacturing has been in decline for many years in our country. The national GDP is more reliant on financial instruments that do not add anything of worth to the country, than we do on manufacturing, which creates wealth and worth. This is more than just an economic issue though, it turns out that this is and will be even more so in the future, a national security issue.

A new report authored by Dr. Joel Yudken, he discovered that the erosion of our manufacturing base in the United States has left massive gaps in our nation’s national security. In the Yudken report titled, Manufacturing Insecurity he states that, “there are advanced technologies critical to military systems—armor plate steel, defense-specific integrated circuits, night vision goggles—for which domestic sources are inadequate.”

The full story can be read here.

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