From Jed Babbin in the American Spectator:
- The defense industrial base has shrunk enormously since the Korean War.
- Our forces expend considerable amounts of munitions in training. More importantly, stockpiles of munitions have to be maintained according to war plans. What we need for a real war — one in which U.S. forces are engaged, not a proxy war such as Ukraine — has to be produced and stockpiled. Now, that’s not being done.
- President Biden’s only good foreign policy decision has been to help Ukraine survive the war Russian President Putin began a year ago. But while Biden has sent — and is sending — vast quantities of arms and munitions to Ukraine, he is not replenishing our stockpile as quickly as we may need it.
