Why America’s Ability to Defend Itself Hinges on Industrial Base

The U.S. military is only as strong as its ability to produce needed weapons and defense materials, and right now, America’s defense industrial base is sorely lacking, according to experts.

“Unfortunately, like the armed services themselves, they have been neglected,” Robert Greenway, director of the Center for National Defense at The Heritage Foundation, says of the U.S. defense industrial base.

Greenway and Richard Stern, director of the Center for the Federal Budget at the Heritage Foundation, join “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain why the defense industrial base is so critical to U.S. military strength, and how increased production will serve all Americans through economic stimulation.