U.S. National Defense Strategy calls for ‘supercharging’ America’s defense industrial base – Defence Industry Europe

U.S. National Defense Strategy calls for ‘supercharging’ America’s defense industrial base  Defence Industry Europe

The U.S. Department of War wants to expand domestic weapons production and use factories in allied countries to help supply American forces. The U.S. Department of War wants to expand domestic weapons production and use factories in allied countries to help supply American forces. Its January 2026 National Defense Strategy assigns those factories a second job: equipping allies to take on more of their own defense while the United States focuses on protecting its homeland and deterring China. Rebuilding the U.S. defense industrial base is one of the strategy’s four priorities. The department calls for bringing strategic industries back to the United States and investing in factories that can produce weapons and ammunition faster, at greater scale and to the standard the military requires.

The strategy describes the effort as “a national mobilization,” invoking the industrial expansions that supported the United States during the world wars and the Cold War. The task it sets for industry runs from developing weapons and producing them in volume to keeping them in service and replacing munitions as forces use them. The department wants to strengthen the military’s own capacity to maintain and repair equipment. It also includes transportation, distribution and resupply in its plans for the industrial base, recognizing that additional factory output is useful only if the military can get it to