ISIS War Drains U.S. Bomb Supply

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ISIS War Drains U.S. Bomb Supply

The intensity of the ISIS campaign has required the Pentagon to draw from its stores around the globe.
 
 

By Paul D. Shinkman | Senior National Security Writer
Feb. 17, 2017, at 5:00 a.m.

Shortages of bombs and other munitions have forced the U.S. military to pull weapons from headquarters in other parts of the world to sustain its 2 1/2-year-old air campaign against the Islamic State group, despite billions of dollars invested in increasing the stockpiles.

"We are concerned, worldwide, when looking at ammunition needs," Deborah James, the former head of the Air Force, said in an interview shortly before stepping down from her position last month. "We've been expending so many in the Middle East we've had to borrow in some cases from other areas."
 

"What we want to do is replenish," James says.

http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2017-02-17/us-raiding-foreign-weapons-stockpiles-to-support-war-against-the-islamic-state-group

[Remington Snodgrass]

NOT AGAIN! After the Arab-Israeli war of 1973, Israel's stockpiles of conventional munitions had been badly depleted. In 1974/75, there was a constant stream of very large C-5 aircraft visiting ALL of our European bases maintaining conventional munitions and flying away with them to Israel. President James Earl Carter had given away all of our conventional stores to Israel, with the exception of our 72 hour supply, required by NATO. If something had happened in Europe requiring our participation, we would have had no conventional munitions by the third day. After the third day we would have had to use...?