Palmer Luckey, the founder of Anduril, spoke with Joe Rogan a while back and it should be required listening at the Pentagon. America won that war because it designed weapons around what its factories could already build. War planners knew what grades of steel and aluminum General Motors and Ford could process, so they built tanks and trucks around that steel and aluminum. They knew what John Deere's plants could turn out, so John Deere made weapons components. The automakers, the tractor makers and the rest of the country's industrial base converted to war production in a matter of months.

We now do the opposite. We design weapons so complex they nearly defy physics and then discover only a handful of specialized shops in the country can build them.

General Motors just recently re-engaged the defense supply chain. GM signed a deal with Lockheed Martin on Aug. 6 to make housing components for Patriot missiles and delivered the first batch 22 days later. Lockheed says those parts traditionally take months or years to produce. The Raytheon and Lockheed Martin joint venture that builds........

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