Navarro: Trump ordered US defense-industrial base study to help 'rebuild' military

Defense News: WASHINGTON — The executive order President Trump signed Friday ordering a government-wide review of America’s defense industry aims to help fulfill Trump’s promise to “rebuild” the military, a top U.S. trade official says.

White House Director of Trade and Industrial Policy Peter Navarro called the defense-industrial base “a major priority,” for Trump. The order, he said, “recognizes that the United States cannot be a global power without a preeminent military.”

“It also recognized that we cannot retain a preeminent military without a healthy, growing economy and a resilient industrial base,” Navarro said in a Fox News op-ed published Saturday.

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