America’s Depleted Weapons Stockpiles Undermine Trump’s Leverage With Iran

America’s depleted arsenal of premier offensive and defensive weapons is undermining President Trump’s leverage with Iran.

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Ari Cicurel, the associate director of foreign policy at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, said Iran seeing the American reluctance to escalate militarily “gives it leverage at the negotiating table, and Beijing draws the same lesson about how long Washington could sustain a fight over Taiwan.”

“Years of procrastination across multiple administrations of both parties left U.S. magazines too shallow before the war, and closing the gap now demands sustained multiyear appropriations and expanded production capacity,” Cicurel told The Hill on Friday.

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