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- Business
- Wall Street Journal
Trump's Tariffs Weaken America's Military
Eighty years ago, the U.S. Army Air Forces staged an exhibition beneath the Eiffel Tower. Thousands of Parisians gathered to admire the B-17 Flying Fortress—an American-built aircraft that helped liberate Europe from Nazi occupation. Primitive by today's standards, those bombers were the product of a national industrial base operating at full capacity. They were deployed by a trans-Atlantic alliance that shared logistics, intelligence and purpose. That model of coordination is what we need now—but it's being tested by a trade agenda that favors confrontation over cooperation.
As I co-lead the congressional delegation to this week's Paris Air Show, the world's largest defense aerospace expo, I find myself asking: Is the greatest obstacle to America's security not China or Russia but our own trade policy?
