As we celebrate America’s 250th birthday, our pride in successfully reaching this milestone must be tempered by the challenge we face: ensuring a strong, secure, and resilient nation for the next 250 years and more. There is a clear, albeit difficult, path forward. First, revive, reconstitute, and reconfigure America’s manufacturing base. Second, within the confines of the U.S. sphere of influence (encompassing the homeland and the rest of the Americas), assemble and build critical supply chains with respect to the technology, energy, and food sectors that are vital to our economic and military security. Third, put in place a pragmatic fiscal framework that defuses the huge, ticking federal deficit bomb while encouraging private sector-driven, sustainable economic growth.The foundation of U.S. military power is the size of America’s manufacturing base. Although the United States has the world’s largest economy, with GDP of $30.4 trillion as of 2025, the American manufacturing sector was only $2.9 trillion or about 9.5% of GDP. In sharp contrast, the size of China’s manufacturing sector was $4.8 trillion or about 25% of GDP of $19.5 trillion. Simply put, although the size of the U.S. economy was about 60% larger than China’s, the American manufacturing sector was only about 60% the size of China’s manufacturing sector.
To win the next war, America must give up consumer goods race against China
To counter China's dominance, America must pivot manufacturing to defense and build a resilient Western Hemisphere supply chain.
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