Defending Defense, a group made up of the Foreign Policy Initiative, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Heritage Foundation, just published “Sequester’s Shadow on the Defense Industrial Base,” a joint paper that examines how the looming threat of even deeper defense cuts is already starting to effect the defense industrial base’s readiness and responsiveness to international military-technological competition, and argues for the need for a responsible fix sooner rather than later.  From the joint paper’s introduction: