US Munitions Stockpile Too Low to Defend in War Over Taiwan

[Coach is Back!]

https://www.theepochtimes.com/in-depth-us-munitions-stockpile-too-low-to-defend-in-war-over-taiwan_5309368.html

[Thin Lizzy]

So, they have an 800 billion dollar a year budget and no bullets.

[Coach is Back!]

So, they have an 800 billion dollar a year budget and no bullets.

Basically, but Zelenskyy is loaded to the hilt

[ProudVirgin69]

So, they have an 800 billion dollar a year budget and no bullets.

Seriously.  This is just more propaganda to manufacture public consent & support for the military industrial complex. 

If the US military doesn’t have enough “munitions” the solution is not more funding.

[Vince G, CSN MFT]

https://www.theepochtimes.com/in-depth-us-munitions-stockpile-too-low-to-defend-in-war-over-taiwan_5309368.html

We have more weapons than any other country on the planet like 200 times over.   Stop reading these shit blogs

[Coach is Back!]

We have more weapons than any other country on the planet like 200 times over.   Stop reading these shit blogs

Fuck head Biden is depleting our weapons and ammunition. Just because we have more doesn’t mean we keep giving them away. Right now we’re having trouble keeping up with the manufacturing to keep up with what he’s giving away.

[IroNat]

I'd put in a big order with Walmart and Amazon.

[oldtimer1]

Democrats always decimate the military. Prior to Trump they didn't have enough ammo to practice. They only qualified.  Say what you want about Trump but he poured money into our military and the puppets that control Biden gave it to the Ukraine. Russia would have never tried to take over the Ukraine under Trump. Now China is gearing up to take over Taiwan because they know how to produce computer chips and China doesn't. China also knows that Biden is weak and will do nothing. No tariffs, military or financially penalty. At the worst they will get a speech he will read from a teleprompter someone wrote for him.

[Thin Lizzy]

Democrats always decimate the military. Prior to Trump they didn't have enough ammo to practice. They only qualified.  Say what you want about Trump but he poured money into our military and the puppets that control Biden gave it to the Ukraine. Russia would have never tried to take over the Ukraine under Trump. Now China is gearing up to take over Taiwan because they know how to produce computer chips and China doesn't. China also knows that Biden is weak and will do nothing. No tariffs, military or financially penalty. At the worst they will get a speech he will read from a teleprompter someone wrote for him.

The long term data doesn’t support this argument. What the data supports is that the military is like every other part of government:  bloated, corrupt  and inefficient.

[OlympiaGym]

The long term data doesn’t support this argument. What the data supports is that the military is like every other part of government:  bloated, corrupt  and inefficient.

This.

F the military. Just another tool of the global elite turning the US into a 3rd-world shithole.

[Skeletor]

We have more weapons than any other country on the planet like 200 times over.   Stop reading these shit blogs

The situation doesn't seem to be as rosy as you describe Vince.


Ex-NATO Commander Warns U.S. Running Low on Ammo as Ukraine War Drags On

Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe James Stavridis warned on Friday that both the United States and Ukraine are running low on ammunition as Russia's war drags on.

Stavridis wrote in a Bloomberg op-ed published on Friday that Russia and Ukraine are experiencing shortages in ammunition, electronic components, precision-guided weapons and cement amidst the war. The shortages could be exacerbated by issues in the global commercial supply chain, which according to Stavridis, are beginning to "manifest."

Stavridis said that he was "nervous" a decade ago about a potential conflict with Russia, adding that while Western allies have an inventory advantage and capability, Russia has a "competent" industrial base, lots or raw materials, and the labor needed to operate the machines in their factories and foundries. The former NATO commander continued: "While the Department of Defense will continue to protect its own war reserves, the excess armament levels—stockpiled for contingencies beyond basic needs of the US war plans—are very low. And it is not just howitzer rounds: The high performance HIMARS rockets are in short supply as well, for example."

https://www.newsweek.com/united-states-ukraine-running-low-ammo-war-1797432


NATO expected to raise munitions stockpile targets as war depletes reserves

NATO is expected to ask its members to raise its ammunition stockpiles which have been badly depleted by the war in Ukraine, as allies try to put arms supplies to Kyiv and their own militaries on a sustainable footing after a year in crisis mode.

Even before Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 last year, many NATO countries fell short of meeting the alliance's stockpiling targets, as officials considered wars of attrition with large-scale artillery battles a thing of the past.

But the pace of deliveries to Ukraine, where Kyiv's troops are firing up to 10,000 artillery shells daily, has drained Western inventories and exposed holes in the efficiency, speed and manpower of supply chains.

"If Europe were to fight Russia, some countries would run out of ammunition in days," a European diplomat told Reuters.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/nato-expected-raise-munitions-stockpile-targets-war-depletes-reserves-2023-02-13/

[IroNat]

What idiot(s) want a war with Russia?

[Skeletor]

What idiot(s) want a war with Russia?

Several.
Couple of prominent ones:

[residue]

The situation doesn't seem to be as rosy as you describe Vince.


Ex-NATO Commander Warns U.S. Running Low on Ammo as Ukraine War Drags On

Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe James Stavridis warned on Friday that both the United States and Ukraine are running low on ammunition as Russia's war drags on.

Stavridis wrote in a Bloomberg op-ed published on Friday that Russia and Ukraine are experiencing shortages in ammunition, electronic components, precision-guided weapons and cement amidst the war. The shortages could be exacerbated by issues in the global commercial supply chain, which according to Stavridis, are beginning to "manifest."

Stavridis said that he was "nervous" a decade ago about a potential conflict with Russia, adding that while Western allies have an inventory advantage and capability, Russia has a "competent" industrial base, lots or raw materials, and the labor needed to operate the machines in their factories and foundries. The former NATO commander continued: "While the Department of Defense will continue to protect its own war reserves, the excess armament levels—stockpiled for contingencies beyond basic needs of the US war plans—are very low. And it is not just howitzer rounds: The high performance HIMARS rockets are in short supply as well, for example."

https://www.newsweek.com/united-states-ukraine-running-low-ammo-war-1797432


NATO expected to raise munitions stockpile targets as war depletes reserves

NATO is expected to ask its members to raise its ammunition stockpiles which have been badly depleted by the war in Ukraine, as allies try to put arms supplies to Kyiv and their own militaries on a sustainable footing after a year in crisis mode.

Even before Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 last year, many NATO countries fell short of meeting the alliance's stockpiling targets, as officials considered wars of attrition with large-scale artillery battles a thing of the past.

But the pace of deliveries to Ukraine, where Kyiv's troops are firing up to 10,000 artillery shells daily, has drained Western inventories and exposed holes in the efficiency, speed and manpower of supply chains.

"If Europe were to fight Russia, some countries would run out of ammunition in days," a European diplomat told Reuters.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/nato-expected-raise-munitions-stockpile-targets-war-depletes-reserves-2023-02-13/

No way, are you saying war pigs want more money for their war chests?? What a shocking development

[benchmstr]

Yeah, that’s a load of shit..just trying to raise the taxes.

Bench

[IroNat]

Supposedly, we were sending Ukraine all our old, obsolete weaponry.

[ProudVirgin69]

The long term data doesn’t support this argument. What the data supports is that the military is like every other part of government:  bloated, corrupt  and inefficient.

I don’t think its accurate to blame this on government inefficiencies, given that we supply our armed forces through private defense contractors. 

It’s all a big grift .. MIC lobbyists and donors line the pockets of elected officials, who then go on to increase the defense budget, which results in record profits year after year for the likes of Lockheed Martin et al.

[Thin Lizzy]

I don’t think its accurate to blame this on government inefficiencies, given that we supply our armed forces through private defense contractors. 

It’s all a big grift .. MIC lobbyists and donors line the pockets of elected officials, who then go on to increase the defense budget, which results in record profits year after year for the likes of Lockheed Martin et al.

It’s inefficient because they don’t have the same incentives that a company in the private sector has   when hiring contractors. Unlike a private company the military can’t go out of business even if it makes horrendous business decisions.

We just witnessed this in Afghanistan. Twenty year war that squandered over a trillion, accomplished nothing and no one held accountable.

[ThisisOverload]

It’s inefficient because they don’t have the same incentives that a company in the private sector has   when hiring contractors. Unlike a private company the military can’t go out of business even if it makes horrendous business decisions.

We just witnessed this in Afghanistan. Twenty year war that squandered over a trillion, accomplished nothing and no one held accountable.

It's a big game.

I know an Army lifer at Fort Bliss in El Paso, he's pretty high up in rank.

He told me recently the ammunitions we are sending overseas are reserve stockpiles that don't eat into our actual armory supply.

Said we have more ammunition than we'd ever need stockpiled all over America.

Makes sense, i can't see how the American Military machine would ever allow itself to run low on actual ammunition.

[OneMoreRep]

Tons of sugar in his tank...



"1"

[Skeletor]

Tons of sugar in his tank...



"1"

He is one of those politicians who tries so hard to be against gays in public but in reality he must be such a perverted rancid poofter that he would make most homosexuals (not the groomers, perverts or trannies) vomit in disgust.

He looks like a middle aged lesbian here:

[IroNat]

He is one of those politicians who tries so hard to be against gays in public but in reality he must be such a perverted rancid poofter that he would make most homosexuals (not the groomers, perverts or trannies) vomit in disgust.

He looks like a middle aged lesbian here:

Most likely.

[obsidian]

We have more weapons than any other country on the planet like 200 times over.   Stop reading these shit blogs

That's a BS statement. Where's your source? Go look at a map. Russia is a lot bigger than the USA. That means they have more resources to build and make shit. They have more nukes than the US.

[obsidian]

He is one of those politicians who tries so hard to be against gays in public but in reality he must be such a perverted rancid poofter that he would make most homosexuals (not the groomers, perverts or trannies) vomit in disgust.

He looks like a middle aged lesbian here:

I wonder what kind of dirt the Deep State has over this tranny?! I nominate Lady Lindsey to go fight Russia at the front lines.

[Thin Lizzy]

He’s the quintessential slimy politician.