{"id":153046,"date":"2026-06-16T17:39:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153046"},"modified":"2026-06-16T17:39:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:39:40","slug":"trump-taps-defence-production-act-to-boost-us-weapons-stockpiles-drained-by-iran-warunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153046","title":{"rendered":"Trump taps Defence Production Act to boost US weapons stockpiles drained by Iran warUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump invoked the Defence Production Act in an effort to bolster delivery of weapons whose stockpiles critics say have been strained by the war in Iran and other conflicts.<br \/>\nThe president cited \u201csystemic constraints in the munitions industrial base\u201d in his order for Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth to make \u201cvoluntary agreements and plans of action\u201d to address the depleted US defence capacity, according to a memo dated June 11 and posted in the Federal Register.<br \/>\nIt was not&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3357349\/trump-taps-defence-production-act-boost-us-weapons-stockpiles-drained-iran-war?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump invoked the Defence Production Act in an effort to bolster delivery of weapons whose stockpiles critics say&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153046"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}