Garrison Davis

In the meantime, the Air Force is down roughly 10% or more of its functional fleet of AWACS, and we don't even have boots on the ground anywhere.

Now, what I think happened here, what I think is behind all of these bad decisions, and this is not something I can verify, this is opinion, is that AWACS aren't sexy.

They're not like a cool weapons system.

They don't kill people directly.

They facilitate other soldiers and sailors and airmen from killing people using other weapons systems.

But you can't threaten somebody with just an AWAC.

They're not like scary.

And you can't show one blowing something up on the news because they don't do that.

So I don't think it was a priority for Hegseth or anyone else in his administration because they're all fucking 12-year-olds.

Previous administrations, and let me be fair here, it's not like they were any more forward-thinking, had kind of looked at our aging fleet and said, eh, good enough.

It's not like anyone we're fighting has a better alternative, right?

Who cares?

It's the same kind of story we just heard with the Tomahawks, right?

What the military was already doing was good enough to scrape by in the conflicts it was already fighting, and nobody involved in starting the next conflict was interested in making sure that the military was prepared ahead of time.

Now, I recognize all this talk about failures to produce war materiel in sufficient quantities may make it sound like I'm complaining that our Air Force isn't buying enough weaponry and that I'm urging us to spend more money producing arms and ammunitions, and that is not my intent.

I want exactly the opposite.

What I'm trying to do is to highlight how utterly unprepared our administration is for the conflict they started and how that failure to prepare has made a major military disaster for U.S.

forces, not just foreseeable, but likely inevitable.

if the administration makes the decision to send in ground forces or in some other way significantly escalate the pace of our operations against Iran.

Now, the mainstream media has done an okay job of reporting on the ammunition shortages that I've discussed, but what I don't think has been hammered home enough is that both our expenditure of advanced ammunitions and the loss of multiple aircraft due to Iranian strikes