Bernd de Boesman
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4 Sep
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He was more upbeat, and I think he spent much of what was a relatively short press briefing at the White House addressing some of those concerns that Americans have about the lingering impact of the war on their own pocketbooks.
Of course, polls have shown that this is something that many Americans are deeply concerned about as we head to a midterms just two months away.
Vice President Vance addressed many of those questions and blamed really any lingering problems on the Iranians shooting at ships in the Gulf.
So I think they'll be waiting to see just when that might happen.
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Summers are becoming increasingly difficult, destructive and therefore deadly.
The stockpile itself is classified, but just looking at estimates of how many of the particular munition were fired in this conflict and how many were believed to be in the pre-war stockpile, among some very critical munitions, long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles, for example, Patriot air defense missiles, that shortage could be down by half or a third.
Not only is that a huge concern for the U.S.
should the war with Iran heat up again and the U.S.
needs to defend its Gulf allies from Iranian drone and missile attacks, but also it comes at a very complicated time in which the U.S., the Pentagon, believes that China is increasingly able and potentially even willing to invade Taiwan.
Besides that, there's also a concern, of course, about what can be provided to
to Ukraine, given U.S.
shortfalls.
Already, President Trump last year declined to give Ukraine those very simple Tomahawk missiles, citing a shortage.
And that was before the conflict in Iran.
So, that really does have very wide-reaching implications for U.S.
military posture around the globe.
Many of these systems have a very long timeline between when they're funded and ordered and when they're actually delivered, something that's measured in years.
Now, I've spoken to a few experts who suggested that the lesson from the war in Iran and also from Ukraine's war with Russia is that the U.S.
could diversify its stockpile by manufacturing more cheap, quick-to-produce systems.
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