“The Wall Street Journal,” citing “people familiar with the discussions.” he says The Trump Pentagon has called on US auto industry leaders to do more for the war effort. America’s national arsenal seems to be starting to look a bit depleted from all the weapons we’ve been sending overseas and the missiles we’ve been jamming lately, especially in Ukraine and Iran.
CEOs including General Motors’ Mary Barra and Ford’s Jim Farley were among the executives involved in talks with senior defense officials about increasing weapons production at auto factories.
It should be noted that the GM military vehicle is already in production Infantry Squad Vehicle or ISV.
a speech last NovemberDefense/War Secretary Pete Hegseth described the industry effort he wanted to see, but it sounded more like ChatGPT than he expected:
“We’re not just buying anything. We’re solving life-or-death problems for our warfighters. We’re not building for peacetime. We’re turning the Pentagon and our industrial base into a wartime base.”
The Defense/War Department is “committed to rapidly expanding the defense industrial base using all available commercial solutions and technologies to provide a decisive advantage to our warfighters,” the Pentagon said in a statement to the Journal.
Earlier this month, President Trump He asked for a military budget of 1.5 trillion dollarswith a clear push for an expanded industrial base.
For no particular reason, here’s a reminder of high school history class: Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1940 “Arsenal of Democracy” speech, one of the all-time masterpieces of US war propaganda.
In this document, FDR argues that the Nazis are a threat to the American way of life and that our allies need our help in fighting them. He explains that we are not required to sacrifice our lives just to come together as government, industry and workers.
“We must have more ships, more guns, more planes – more than anything else. And this can only be done by abandoning the concept of “business as usual.”
It’s utterly believable, and listening to it today will evoke feelings of determination and patriotism you may have forgotten you could feel. If you feel inclined to listen to it in the current context and play a little compare and contrast game, that’s your job.
