America Is Shooting Down Iranian Drones With Missiles Built for Soviet Bombers

The Truth About America’s Munitions Crisis

The question of America’s munitions shortage has dominated coverage of the Iran war in recent days. After President Donald Trump retreated from further strikes against Tehran last week, administration officials blamed depleted weapons stockpiles for forcing his hand. Park MacDougald, writing in Tablet, suggests there is more to the story, arguing the explanation is overstated and that the spin around it reveals more than the shortage itself. We’…

US resumed aggression against Iran only to demonstrate its woeful incompetence

American aggression on Iran has once again laid bare deep structural failures in the Pentagon’s strategy, force planning and mission oversight. Instead of a short, decisive “shock & awe” victory we usually see in pathetic Hollywood propaganda, Washington DC finds itself bleeding personnel, money and exorbitantly expensive precision-guided munitions in ways that weaken its broader power and […]

America Is Shooting Down Iranian Drones With Missiles Built for Soviet Bombers

If you are to believe the reports in the media this past weekend, America is running critically low on defensive interceptors in its current entaglement with the Islamic Republic of Iran, and it’s leaving the Trump Administration with fewer options on the table to come out of the conflict with a clean result. Share Subscribe...

Why Gen. Dan Caine is warning Trump about Iran munitions

Gen. Dan Caine’s responsibility as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is to balance finite military capabilities against many military contingencies. This hard task is made harder by the unstable international security environment. But considering the balance of U.S. strategic interests, Caine’s first priority is to maximize the U.S. military’s ability to deter or win a war with China. Conservative commentator Mark Levin and some others do no…

Trump pauses Iran strikes after warnings of dwindling munitions stockpiles – National & International News

Trump pauses Iran strikes after warnings of dwindling munitions stockpiles Over the weekend, President Trump called a halt to US bombing of Iran. Trump’s decision came after warnings from top generals about depleting weapons stockpiles and an assessment that the bombing campaign had reached the limits of its usefulness. Pentagon sources have been leaking their concerns about dwindling munitions stockpiles ever since the 12-day war between Israel…