A recent classified assessment advised that prolonged large-scale operations in the Middle East risk weakening U.S. capabilities elsewhere.
“Several U.S. military leaders have advised Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that prolonging large-scale operations against Iran is unsustainable and risks weakening their ability to confront threats elsewhere, including the U.S. homeland, according to people familiar with a recent assessment prepared for the Pentagon chief.
The warnings — detailed for Hegseth by the heads of the Army, Navy and Air Force and the four-star commanders overseeing U.S. operations throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America — appear in the Aug. 14 edition of the Secretary of Defense Orders Book (SDOB), these people said. They described the assessment to The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity because the document is classified.
The SDOB, typically produced twice monthly, outlines the worldwide availability of U.S. warships, aircraft, personnel and weapons systems. It reflects the president’s priorities for the force, which are carried out by the defense secretary, and includes insights from the military’s top generals and admirals that inform the directives the Pentagon issues.”
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Functionally, here's how I understand this. We have plenty of munitions.
However, we have been burning our "close in" munitions at a high rate. So here's what that means... We have to be closer to Iran to fire our weapons, theoretically putting our ppl in greater danger.
But make no mistake... we've exhausted a substantial amount of our munitions on an elective war, to end a problem the POTUS said was obliterated last year.
Anonymous deep state leakers... how scary!
As the evidence of an overextended and crumbling empire mounts.
40+ trillion national debt that conservative republican administration's are largely responsible for (RWR, GWB, trump 1.0 and trump 2.0)
Never Ending wars seems the norm. And now a war of aggression started by a US president and the Zionist state.
A malignant narcissist authoritarian who constantly engages in self promoting and and back patting.
A majority party who both fears and worships its leader.
The active attempt to alienate our close allies by our toddler president.
The steady barrage of propaganda and disinformation flowing out of the trump regime and his party of sycophants.
I could go on...
trump and regime ARE the deep state. Complete with a weaponized DOJ, ICE, and CIA.
Hegseth axillary to the Atilla diplomacy - instead of blinding the bearers of bad knews, fire your top Generals. Progress........
Joe... it's simple math. We started with X. Now we have substantially less than X. The US MIC can only restock us at a certain level, nowhere near as fast as we have expended those munitions.
We simply do not have the capacity to make bombs and missiles fast. It takes time, and money.
Our allies know this, our enemies know this.
Our sovereign took his eye off the ball.
While we still have significant firepower, we are nowhere near as strong now as we were 6 months ago. And every two bit dictator on the planet knows it.
The USA will be a short lived lived empire. Quite probably < than 100 years.
We NEVER should have allowed ourselves to be an empire in the first place, actually. The fall will be a hard one and I'm guessing our grandchildren and great grandchilkdren will not forgive us or our stupidity.
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