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🚨🇺🇸 🇮🇷 The Pentagon just asked GM and Ford to start making weapons. The last time that happened was World War II...
Senior defense officials sat down with Mary Barra and Jim Farley to discuss shifting factory capacity toward munitions and military equipment.
GE Aerospace and Oshkosh are also in talks.
The Pentagon framed it as a matter of national security.
The Iran war burned through Tomahawks at nine times the annual procurement rate.
Fired every PrSM in the inventory. Depleted Patriot interceptors across the region.
The defense industrial base built for peacetime deterrence couldn't keep up with six weeks of actual war.
During World War II, Detroit stopped making cars and started making bombers.
During COVID, GM and Ford made ventilators.
Now the Pentagon wants to know if they can make missiles.
The $1.5 trillion defense budget request, the largest in modern history, calls for major investment in munitions and drone manufacturing.
But traditional contractors can't scale fast enough.
The Pentagon needs commercial partners who know how to run assembly lines at volume.
Trump says the war is "very close to over."
The Pentagon is already asking car companies to tool up for the next one.
Source: WSJ
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🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran's Supreme Leader's military adviser just threatened to sink American ships and take thousands of hostages... Brigadier General Rezae also says he's "completely against extending the ceasefire". He frames it as a "personal opinion," but personal opinions from military advisors to the Supreme Leader don't get shared publicly by accident. This is the IRGC hardliners making their position known while the diplomats negotiate behind the scenes. That's the tension at the heart of Iran's decision-making: the diplomats want a deal, the generals want revenge, and whoever wins that internal battle determines whether the ceasefire survives the week. Source: AFP
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