When most Americans remember President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell address, they think of his warning of the power of the “military-industrial complex,” but he also offered the positive vision of an industrial base “ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction.” Over 60 years later, America’s adversaries are increasingly testing their luck, often by leveraging inexpensive, commercial off-the-shelf systems to impose asymmetric costs on the United States and its allies and partners. This is causing both a tactical deficit and technical debt the defense-industrial base is struggling to reconcile.In the RedThe post A Guide to Refactoring the Defense-Industrial Base appeared first on War on the Rocks.