The U.S. military faces a growing strategic risk as critical minerals essential for weapons systems, vehicles, and advanced technology remain heavily dependent on fragile and foreign-controlled supply chains. Decades of offshoring, industrial decline, and rising debt have left domestic production unable to meet defense needs. As global competition intensifies, this vulnerability exposes how modern military power is constrained not only by budgets and policy, but by access to the raw materials that sustain it.
Unable to Fight: How A Devastating Critical Minerals Supply Chain Crisis is Strangling the US Military
