When the U.S. military’s top general laid out the risks to President Trump of launching a major and extended attack on Iran, one of the issues he flagged was America’s stockpile of munitions.
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But Israel has concerns about its munitions supply as well. It is still low on Arrow 3 air-defense interceptors, another U.S. official says. Israel is also low on air-launched ballistic missiles, a weapon it used to take out Iranian missile launchers this summer and to attack Hamas leaders in Qatar last year, the official said.
Jonathan Conricus, a former spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces who is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said he was “underwhelmed so far by the amount of missiles that the Iranians have been able to fire.”
Correct. They aren’t talking about small arms ammunition. I heard a figure that the US might be down to like half the total supply of THAAD interceptors after the “Twelve Day War”. The missiles take ~3 years to manufacturer from order to completion. It’s all the fancy (but profitable) wunderweapons the US military uses that are good for shock and awe, but not great at fighting a war.
That’s exactly what I was trying to say, thank you. The west just thinks “big boom = win”
All major powers seem to have their doctrine based on first strike capability and defense. Big expensive equipment that can hopefully neutralize the opposition of the bat, as well as trying to defend against said decapitation strike. Meanwhile smaller actors plan for attritional wars since those expensive toys are all spent after 2 months of conflict.