>> The US can't even make cell phones any more. >> What would it take to get that capability back? > The question then is why would you want to do this? Nati

>> The US can't even make cell phones any more. >> What would it take to get that capability back? > The question then is why would you want to do this? National security, obviously. Cell phones are a critical modern communication device, and whoever though it was a good idea to outsource that kind of thing political and economic rival was an idiot. There's all kinds of accounts of past CIA/NSA daring-do where they used US-manufactured products to subvert rivals, and now we're going to get to be on the other end of that kind of thing. Then there's the adding factor of it being kind of a good idea to have significant manufacturing capacity for the full-range of modern products located domestically or with allies in case the geopolitical SHTF. You know, all that important stuff the market doesn't give a shit about, because it's a limited and imperfect system.