No. 4. Why defence won’t be offshored (unlike every other industry Europe lost)?
You can offshore electronics.You can offshore EV battery plants.You cannot offshore defence.Why?You don’t outsource critical systems to geopolitical competitors;You don’t manufacture complex military tech in low-cost regions;You can’t recreate decades of aerospace and defence culture elsewhere;And defence demand is government-backed, it doesn’t vanish overnight.This is why defence & aerospace are becoming Europe’s new industrial backbone.But here is the uncomfortable truth:An industry is only as strong as its supply chain.And Europe’s supply chain is the weakest part of the system.
