The Pentagon Doesn’t Need to Reinvent Supply Chain Transparency

As the United States seeks to rebuild its defense industrial base, Washington is scrambling to understand an industrial ecosystem that it no longer controls, nor largely understands. China has been able to achieve strategic advantage against the United States through the targeted application of export controls and licensing requirements on specific materials at specific supply chain nodes. U.S. responses, by contrast, have largely been broader in scope and shallower in effect. It is as though China is striking the supply chain with precision-guided munitions while the United States is still us