Galvanizing America's Defense Industrial Policy

This week, Chris, Zack, and Melanie talk about a new report,
“Rebuild: Toolkit for a New American Industrial Policy,” from the
Center for a New American Security. The United States government
has a number of ways to intervene in the economy to advance the
national interest. The use of tariffs and the Defense Production
Act by the last two administrations, as well as passage of the
Infrastructure and Jobs Act, CHIPS and Science Act, and Inflation
Reduction Act, are measures that some argue will help the United
States compete more aggressively with China. Should the United
States have an industrial policy? What objectives should an
industrial policy serve, and how is that determined? How would
such a policy be implemented?


Zack gives a shoutout to the Institute for the Study of War for
helping us better understand the war in Ukraine, Chris praises
Cornell University Press executive editor Roger Haydon on his
retirement, and Melanie suggests a good read on how the United
States and Taiwan can best prepare the island for a Chinese
invasion.


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reading: https://warontherocks.com/2022/09/galvanizing-americas-defense-industrial-policy