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Inside the Push to Reshore and Rebuild U.S. Manufacturing w/ Alex Krutz
For decades, we’ve told ourselves that manufacturing is something advanced economies naturally outgrow. That once you move into services, data, and software, heavy industry becomes optional, nice to have, but not essential.
But from a national and economic security perspective, America can’t afford to treat industrial capacity as a legacy asset it can outsource and revisit later—especially now.
Hollowing out manufacturing doesn’t just weaken supply chains. It introduces risk into systems that depend on precision, reliability, and readiness.
The question isn’t whether the U.S. can still build…
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