The Arlington Doctrine

The Arlington Doctrine is a demand-driven strategy that secures U.S. critical materials for Protected Markets—including defense, nuclear, robotics, electric aviation, and critical infrastructure—by reversing traditional supply chain models. Starting with end-product demand and working backward, it accelerates domestic sourcing, midstream processing, and downstream production, eliminating reliance on adversarial nations.

Through targeted capital, public-private partnerships, and strategic stockpiling, it ensures resilient, fully integrated supply chains essential for national security and economic stability. A core mandate of the Doctrine is re-industrialization, achieved by identifying, repurposing, and optimizing existing facilities and latent industrial capacity.

By exclusively prioritizing the 3-5% of critical materials essential to Protected Markets—rather than the entire market—it transforms what would be considered “pilot-scale” for broader commercial markets into full-scale, fit-for-purpose infrastructure for defense and strategic needs. This approach accelerates deployment, reduces capital intensity, and breathes new life into under-utilized industrial assets, strengthening the domestic manufacturing base without the burden of overextending resources.

The Doctrine not only sidesteps the intractable challenges of overhauling entire markets but also delivers a scalable, agile framework that aligns upstream, midstream, and downstream operations with clearly defined national priorities. While the approach recognizes the importance of securing upstream resources, it treats this as a targeted, demand-led effort—integrating upstream assets only where necessary and ensuring every investment serves a strategic purpose in building the Outcome-Chain™.

By avoiding speculative ventures and leveraging existing infrastructure to join assets and companies into a vertically integrated ecosystem, the Arlington Doctrine accelerates timelines, reduces costs, and enhances supply chain resilience. In an era where supply chain control equates to national power, the Doctrine offers a results-focused blueprint for re-industrialization, fortifying America’s industrial base, safeguarding its strategic future, and restoring its capacity to produce what it needs, when it needs it.

AIP brings together technical experts and strategic leaders to strengthen U.S. critical material supply chains, aligning industry capabilities with national security priorities through policy-driven frameworks like the Arlington Doctrine.