You literally cannot have an effective national security apparatus without massive amounts of protectionist economic policy that guarantees that the resources y

You literally cannot have an effective national security apparatus without massive amounts of protectionist economic policy that guarantees that the resources your armed forces depend on (and the resources those resources depend on, and so on) aren't immediately cut off when you enter a conflict. Every politician this side of Hammurabi has understood this basic fact of sovereignty and in this day and age of military mega-alliances, that kind of control becomes more important than ever. With the way the electrical generation industry is going, it won't be long before solar panel manufacturing is critical to our national security.