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Arsenal of democracy address

Roosevelt gives the canon its clearest wartime statement of industry as strategic depth.

Author
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Year
1940
Track
foundations
Citation
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Arsenal of Democracy address, 1940.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt at a fireside chat broadcast, Washington D.C., 1935
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, NARA, public domain

Roosevelt gives the canon its clearest wartime statement of industry as strategic depth. Its place in the canon is not decorative. It marks a recurring problem for American economic statecraft: how law, capital, operators, and legitimacy combine when a nation tries to build strategic economic terrain.