The Superpower That Can’t Arm Itself

It should be a matter of the highest national priority to use every lever of government and the private sector to bolster the defense-industrial base in all its aspects.

No matter how much we’d like to believe in the inevitability of human progress and the spread of enlightened norms, we’ve learned the past couple of years that we still need artillery shells — lots of artillery shells.

The Hamas terror attack, together with the ongoing Ukraine war and the looming Chinese threat to Taiwan, is putting a spotlight on the pitiful...