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Replenishing Stocks Will Just Recreate A Failed Military

The US Military Must Be Remade--Not Reconstructed As It Was

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Phillips P. OBrien
Aug 11, 2026
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Hi All,

Lately there has been a great deal of discussion of how the USA has run down its stocks of certain classes of advanced military equipment. I know, as I have been a part of that debate starting here, and also in the Atlantic. This expenditure of ammunition is indeed shocking, and even before the latest Trump escalation in July had led to dangerously low stockpiles in certain areas; stockpiles so low that, I for one, do not believe that the US military will be capable of fighting a major war for years.

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