We all know that Washington, D.C., has spent the past several years debating defense budgets, supply chain resilience, and industrial policy. 

Yet one of the most important lessons emerging from America’s renewed focus on national security is that military superiority is not built solely by billion-dollar weapons platforms, but upon thousands of highly specialized manufacturers producing the components that make those platforms function.

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