https://endoftheamericandream.com/the-u-s-and-our-nato-allies-are-running-dangerously-low-on-ammo/
This is not a time to be running low on ammo. A major conflict could erupt in the Middle East at any time, and thanks to the recklessness of the Biden administration the U.S. could soon find itself fighting wars with both Russia and China simultaneously. So you would think that our military brass would be absolutely determined to make sure that we have plenty of ammunition stockpiled. But we don’t. In fact, as a result of sending so much ammo to Ukraine our own stockpiles have gotten dangerously low. This is something that General James Hecker commented on during a recent panel discussion…
Speaking on a panel with the air chiefs of the United Kingdom and Sweden during the Chief of the Air Staff’s Global Air & Space Chiefs’ Conference in London, USAFE Commander Gen. James Hecker, who also leads US air forces in Africa, urged fellow North Atlantic Treaty Organization members to take a hard look at the status of their weapon stockpiles.
“I think it’s very important that we kind of take stock of where we are in our weapons state across the 32 nations of NATO, and we’re getting way down compared to where we were,” said Hecker, who counted Sweden’s expected accession to NATO among the collection of allied nations — a topic of heated discussion at the NATO summit in Lithuania this week.
Hecker supports sending ammunition to Ukraine, but he admits that “we’re getting dangerously low” and he is hoping that factories here in the U.S. can start producing more…
“If you look at the US itself — and let’s not just talk about the munitions we recently have given away to Ukraine — but we’re [at] roughly half the number of fighter squadrons that we were when we did Desert Storm,” Hecker said, pointing to a similar decline in fighter strength for the UK. “So we don’t have nearly what we had at the heart of the Cold War. Now you add that we’re giving a lot of munitions away to the Ukrainians — which I think is exactly what we need to do — but now we’re getting dangerously low and sometimes, in some cases even too low, that we don’t have enough. And we need to get industry on board to help us out so we can get this going.”