[This piece has been published in Restoring America to highlight the importance of increased investment in U.S. military weaponry.]
, it’s “time for the military to stock up on things that go boom.” Comparing the Army’s request for about 150,000 of 155mm howitzer shells in fiscal year 2019 — an over 800% increase — the war in Ukraine has expended 806,000 of these same shells in just six months’ time.the military’s long-range anti-ship missile inventories as “grossly inadequate” in a war against China toShe told Schogol that the U.S.
Pentagon leaders are getting the message but still moving too slowly to action . In a conference sponsored byto persuade companies to “improve and expand their factories.” Longer-term investments signal certainty to primes to invest, provide big savings for taxpayers over annual deals, and stabilize the supply chain and vendor base, LaPlante noted in aWhile LaPlante is right to talk about the need for long-term contracts, it’s another thing to actually secure them. It’s past time for the Pentagon to do just that, and Congress should hold defense leaders’ feet to the fire.
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