… the west, is the ability to build weaponry at a scale and scope necessary not just to deal with the threats of today, but to innovate and develop those tomorrow. It simply just takes too long to build up defense articles, get them to market in a timely fashion. And not only do we complain about that, but we have allies who want to buy things from us that we just haven't been able to produce fast enough. (1:38:28–1:38:35)
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Asserts that the U.S. defense industry takes too long to produce and market defense articles.
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