Regardless of the merits or demerits of the Biden administration’s policies on the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and the wider Middle East, it has become clear that the United States has been using and giving away its missiles faster than it can produce them.
It is also clear that from the perspective of missile inventories and production, the United States is far from prepared to engage confidently in a sustained direct conflict with a peer competitor like China.
This is demonstrated by the fact that U.S. missile and artillery shell reserves are currently inadequate to provide Ukraine with what it needs to keep its missile defense systems supplied with interceptors. Indeed, the inability of the United States and its NATO allies to provide enough air defense missiles — a.k.a. interceptors — has made it easier for Russia to att
Poster Comment:
NAFTA caused 80,000 US manufacturing sites to close. Joe Biden at one point after October 7th of 2023 was paying $8,000 for one artillery shell. Israel is so depleted of interceptors that they have to ration their responses and chose which incoming drone and missile will they attempt to intercept.