Comment by hedora

Stockpiling doesn’t really do much vs. investing in manufacturing.

Contrast the US in the civil war or wwii to the current situation. In both those wars, civilian factories were rapidly converted for the war and manufacturing capabilities were ramped fast.

In Iran, we’ve burned through years or decades of manufacturing capacity and probably used up most of our top tier stockpile.

That only exhausted/destroyed about 33% of Iran’s cruise missile stockpiles. It’s unclear what it did to their drone manufacturing capabilities. It guaranteed they’ll pursue nuclear capabilities moving forward.

At the same time, US investment in manufacturing is tanking due to warmongering and isolationist economic policies.

Iran stalemated us in a month or two, and all the trends I see (education, manufacturing, high tech innovation) point to US capabilities eroding rapidly in the short to medium term.