The America Last agenda of previous administrations looms large as concerns about missile stockpiles once again crop up amid Operation Epic Fury.
Over four years under then-President Joe Biden, Americans watched as enlistment quotas were missed, the military made DEI a priority, and armaments were shipped overseas to support a foreign war — along with tens of billions in U.S. taxpayer dollars.
While Biden’s actions proved little different than those of his old boss, President Donald Trump’s own efforts to counter the left’s depletion of military might thus far seem insufficient to stave off concerns regarding missile inventory for prolonged fighting with Iran.
“Officials and analysts warn that certain U.S. missile and air-defense interceptor inventories have been severely drawn down by the relentless pace of recent operations,” reported Fox News. “The strategic dilemma for the Pentagon is that the systems required to shield U.S. bases from Iranian retaliation are the same ones being depleted by the defense of Ukraine and the ongoing protection of Israel.”
Similarly, Business Insider reported, “US officials and experts have raised concerns that Tomahawk stockpiles are being drained after their use against targets in Nigeria, Yemen, Iran, and now Iran again — risking that the US might not have enough on hand should it go to war with an adversary like China.”
In addition to actions taken across the Middle East, Fox News pointed to the years-long supply of armaments to Ukraine in its war against Russia. “Replenishing these high-end systems can take more than a year, analysts say, because production lines are optimized for peacetime and cannot be surged overnight.”
Prior to the first Trump administration, Americans had been left aghast by both the shrinking of the size of the U.S. military under President Barack Obama and the feckless leadership that led to American sailors being arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Fox News detailed that over 150 Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Interceptors, amounting to about a quarter of the world’s supply, had been used in the 12-Day War between Iran and Israel, the end of which was facilitated by Trump’s strike on Iranian nuclear sites dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer.
Despite numerous corporate media outlets echoing the same concerns about the U.S. military’s missile stockpile, Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell countered the claims in a statement, “The Department of War has everything it needs to execute any mission at the time and place of the president’s choosing and on any timeline.”
Likewise, as RTX Corporation announced an increase in Tomahawk production to exceed 1,000 missiles per year in an agreement with the Pentagon, retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Charles Wald told Fox News Digital, “From a conventional munition standpoint, we can always fly in more weapons from around the world. There are a lot of weapons stored there with this type of mission in mind.”
“The issue will be defensive weapons — Patriot, SM-3, and the Arrow system in Israel. You can never have enough defense,” the general added as he suggested the ongoing Operation Epic Fury would not be “as clean or pure as, say, Venezuela was, or the 12-day war.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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