Washington Dusts Off World War II Playbook
WSJ Minute Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:42.9 | The Trump administration is pressing U.S. manufacturers to massively boost weapons production, |
| 0:48.2 | framing the push as a matter of national security. We are exclusively reporting that senior defense officials have held wide-ranging talks with executives at Ford, GM, GE Aerospace, |
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| 1:01.6 | Lawmakers and the Pentagon have been concerned about manufacturing capacity since the U.S. |
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