The Unseen Cost: Industrial Base Consequences of Defense Strategy Choices

by Marion C. Blakey, AIA President & CEO
Originally appeared in Armed Forces Journal, January 01, 2010

From America’s earliest days, the U.S. defense industrial base has been a critical part of the nation’s economic and military power grid. The government relied upon a combination of arsenals and private industry for much of our history. However, since World War II, virtually all of America’s modern military equipment has been manufactured by private industry.

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