“but we do have huge stores of war fighting ammo and supplies”
I would guess at least a million JDAMs, as an example.
When combined with stealth and air supremacy that’s money in the bank.
But we are low on Patriot, THAAD and SM-6. And getting low on the most modern Tomahawks.
Production of those missiles have been doubled and quadrupled in the BBB.
1,000 Tomahawks, 500 THAAD, 500 SM-6 and 500 Patriot is the planned production this year.
I don’t think that America flitters from conflict to conflict running out of Tomahawks and so on and just hoping for the best from Russia and China and North Korea until we can replace them, I think those numbers are of a shallow level of stores open for the world to basically know about and share general knowledge of.
I think there are stores that we don’t know about is what I was posting, the deep stores for us to fight a war of survival that is not part of what we think of as our military stocks of public numbers and discussions and the numbers shared globally, including with Russia and China.
About 3 years ago I came across a gov document that seemed to mention the hidden levels but with details, I should have saved it.