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But the obstacles the U.S. has faced in trying to supply Ukraine during the past two years have revealed a systemic, gaping national-security weakness. It is a weakness that afflicts the U.S. military at all levels, and about which the public is largely unaware. The vaunted American war machine is in disarray and disrepair. .....Ted Anderson, a retired Army officer who is now a principal partner of Forward Global, a defense consultancy, told me, “You would stay awake all night if you had any idea how short we are of artillery ammo.”

Al Gore today promised to help Sen. John Kerry fight "outrageous and misleading" Republican attacks by giving more than $6 million to Democrat groups. Burdened by leftovers from his failed presidential campaign of 2000, the former veep vowed to donate $4 million to Democratic National Committee, $1 million each to the party's Senate and House committees and $250,000 to the party in Tennessee, the former home state that stomped on his dreams of reaching the Oval Office. Bonus: He's giving the $240,000 left from his failed coup attempt (i.e., his Florida recount fund), which paid for such schemes as...