{"id":78438,"date":"2026-04-17T03:41:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/pentagon-reportedly-asks-detroit-to-use-more-car-factories-as-arms-factories\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T03:41:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:41:28","slug":"pentagon-reportedly-asks-detroit-to-use-more-car-factories-as-arms-factories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/pentagon-reportedly-asks-detroit-to-use-more-car-factories-as-arms-factories\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Reportedly Asks Detroit to Use More Car Factories as Arms Factories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ford-factory-1280x853.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal, citing \u201cpeople familiar with the discussions,\u201d says the Trump Pentagon has urged leaders in the U.S. automotive industry to do more for the war effort. America\u2019s national weapons cache has, it seems, begun to look a bit depleted from all the arms we\u2019ve shipped abroad, and rounds we\u2019ve squeezed off lately\u2014particularly in Ukraine and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>CEOs including Mary Barra of General Motors and Jim Farley of Ford have been among the executives who have sat for talks with high-ranking defense officials about upping the production of arms in what are currently car factories, with labor from people currently employed as automotive workers.<\/p>\n<p>GM, it should be noted, already makes a military vehicle called the Infantry Squad Vehicle or ISV.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech in November of last year, Secretary of Defense\/War Pete Hegseth described the industrial effort he\u2019d like to see, but sounded a bit more like ChatGPT than he probably intends:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cWe\u2019re not just buying something. We are solving life and death problems for our war fighters. We\u2019re not building for peacetime. We are pivoting the Pentagon and our industrial base to a wartime footing.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Pentagon\u2019s statement to the Journal said the Department of Defense\/War is \u201ccommitted to rapidly expanding the defense industrial base by leveraging all available commercial solutions and technologies to ensure our warfighters maintain a decisive advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, President Trump requested a $1.5 trillion military budget, with an explicit push for an expanded industrial base.<\/p>\n<p>For no particular reason, here\u2019s a flashback to high school history class: Franklin Delano Roosevelt\u2019s 1940 \u201cArsenal of Democracy\u201d speech, one of the all-time masterpieces of U.S. war propaganda.<\/p>\n<div class=\"not-prose video-container\"><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fireside Chat The Arsenal Of Democracy (December 29th 1940)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/8oI-xc7XbWA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>In it, FDR makes the case that the Nazis are a threat to the American way of life, and that our allies need our help fighting them off. We\u2019re not being asked to lay down our lives, he explains, just to come together as government, industry, and workers.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cWe must have more ships, more guns, more planes\u2014more of everything. And this can only be accomplished if we discard the notion of \u2018business as usual.\u2019 This job cannot be done merely by superimposing on the existing productive facilities the added requirements of the nation for defense.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s utterly convincing, and listening to it today will stir up feelings of determination and patriotism you might have forgotten you could feel. If you feel inclined to listen to it in the current context, and play a little game of compare and contrast, that\u2019s your business.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal, citing \u201cpeople familiar with the discussions,\u201d says the Trump Pentagon has urged leaders in the U.S. automotive industry to do more for the war effort. America\u2019s national weapons cache has, it seems, begun to look a bit depleted from all the arms we\u2019ve shipped abroad, and rounds we\u2019ve squeezed off lately\u2014particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ford-factory-1200x675.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}