After years of browbeating Tokyo to up its defense posture and criticizing its anemic domestic defense industry, U.S. bottlenecks are now impeding efforts to modernize Japan¡¯s defense capabilities.
The decline of the U.S. defense industrial base is not a new story, but it has assumed new urgency with the Iran war and questions about U.S. commitments to the defense of its allies around the world.
The likelihood that an adversary will test the U.S. is growing and while U.S. capabilities aren¡¯t determinative in those calculations, they certainly influence them.
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