GMAT Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: Defense Department analysts worry that the ability of the

IMO C..

The argument states below two things:

1. Machine tool Manufacturing base shrinking --> DDA worry that US cannot continue war further.
2.DDA connected this issue with the import quotas before...BUT the author says that machine tool manufacturing already raised the national security issue

Now in C ,it says that machine tool industry encountered difficulty in obtaining govt protection OTHER THAN DEFENSE>>> this implies that the issue has already been raised and while obtaining
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