The attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon are likely to generate greater momentum for moving factory production closer to home.

Thousands of pagers and other devices exploding in Lebanon this week mark a new and deadly escalation in the use of supply chains against adversaries, giving new urgency to global leaders’ drive to reduce their dependence on technologies from rivals.

Taiwan-based Gold Apollo said Hungary-based BAC was licensed to use its brand as the militant group Hezbollah said there would be a “severe reckoning” over the blasts.