“The factory is the weapon, because without the factory, you have no weapons.” Anduril’s @traestephens says even if we had equal labor costs, the US still couldn’t compete with China on manufacturing: “We offshored a lot of manufacturing work to lower-cost labor locations like China.” “Not only did they soak up a lot of that manufacturing capacity, but they also developed advanced tooling and know-how to build the things that we use every day.” “At this point, even if there was complete labor cost parity, we still don't have the ability to just magically reshore a lot of these critical components that are going to be important to the next 50 or 100 years.” “We're in this place where we really need to reindustrialize.”