Counselor Mike Needham gave an important speech at last week’s Reindustrialize conference. Under President Trump and Secretary Hegseth’s leadership, we at DOD are laser-focused on restoring America’s defense industrial base to its prior strength. This task is vital to the continued security, prosperity, and freedom of our great nation. 1/
“Americans are different from the rest of the world. Everyone knows it, but not everyone knows why. Some say it’s our Constitution, or our political traditions, or our vast landmass. But that’s not the whole story.” 2/ americanmind.org/salvo/building…
“Above all else, what sets America apart from the rest of the world is our people…America is a nation of pioneers, explorers, and inventors.” 3/
“In the 21st century, America and its civilizational allies will face a choice. We can do the work to rebuild our nation. Or we can watch as our technology and our national defense are held hostage to regimes that share neither our way of life nor our aspirations as a country and civilization.” 4/
“This is the genius of President Trump’s America First foreign policy. Through diplomacy we are putting our immense leverage as a superpower to work for these interests—rather than sectional lobbies or the abstract ‘global community.’” 5/
“We are securing from other countries the rights to the raw materials we need—rather than giving them lessons about democracy. This philosophy takes, as its first principle, that America is not an idea to be exported, but a real nation and people, united by our past and our future—a unique history and a shared destiny.” 6/
“The full promise of reindustrialization is a recovery of both the material and the spiritual ingredients for greatness. By building and asserting ourselves once more—by insisting upon ourselves, without apology or shame—we remember who we are: a nation and a people forged in the crucible of a wild frontier.” 7/
“To make a next American century, we must rekindle that flame…The time for timidity has long since passed. Small groups of audacious men built our nation. Now, it falls to us to reindustrialize it—and in doing so, to carve out a new American century.” 8/8
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