New Abrams tanks overhauled at the Pentagon-owned factory in Lima, Ohio, are loaded on rail cars for shipment. (David S. Cloud/Los Angeles Times)
Loren Thompson, Forbes: How President Trump Saved The Last Tank Plant In America
If you want to believe America is still the "arsenal of democracy" that Franklin Roosevelt described in 1940, you might want to avoid looking too closely at the U.S. manufacturing sector. China has become the world's premier industrial power, greatly out-producing the United States in everything from steel to smartphones. Germany's machine-tool industry outshines our own. No U.S. shipyard has built a commercial ship destined for international commerce in decades.
The economic consequences of America's manufacturing decline have been widely reported. What gets less attention is how industrial decay might impact national defense. Nobody really knows how a future great-power conflict might unfold, but Washington could be forced to use nuclear weapons to avert defeat if it can't mobilize quickly for conventional combat. President Trump is the first chief executive since the Cold War ended who seems to grasp what a waning industrial base might one day mean for our security.
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WNU editor: It is hard to believe that if it was not for President Trump and his administration, the U.S. was about to close its one factory that produces tanks.
6 comments:
The Republic is saved.
"The new defense spending bill includes $120 million for tanks that the Army has repeatedly said it doesn't want.
For three years, the Army in numerous Congressional hearings has pushed a plan that essentially would have suspended tank building and upgrades in the U.S. for the first time since World War II. The Army suggested that production lines could be kept open through foreign sales." 2014
How will America ever defend itself with its approx. 8,800 MBT inventory and two oceans to cross.
I will sleep better tonight knowing out tank assembly line is open. Said no one ever.
Quality bait there anon
When was the last time an Abrams tank was used to protect the continental United States?
This is anther example of Trump driving up the national debt for the interests of the same international bankers that moved the US factories to China in the first place.
Are you guys mental? We have China and Russia credibly ramping up war rhetoric - have you even read the latest things Xi said? And on top you have an example with Russia - what happened to them when their only dry dock malfunctioned. How can you be so irresponsible making jokes about the safety of our nation, just to further your hatred about DJT? Stop if ffs. Go vote whoever you want, but stay out of national security just to make cheap political points. Thank you
Trump undoing the damage of Obama yet again.
Some are mental and some are die hard anti-Americans that would love to see us be conquered, and some are foreign trolls.
How does one stop a Russian T72, T82 or Armata on the plains of northern Europe without an M1?
Stupid trolls know this, but trolls got to troll. It is all they know.
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