About Those Ammunition Stockpiles

A magazine at 'critical minimum' is already effectively empty

Jul 07, 2025

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Winter 1917/1918 on the Western Front. Ammunition stocks are never enough to sustain a major war and men always die while peacetime manufacturing catches up

Originally attributed to Elbridge Colby, the latest disruption of Ukrainian ammunition supplies turns out to have been the decision of Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense. Hegseth is being excoria…

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