America’s Military Is Low on Ammo

There is an apocryphal history in the military circles that leave North Africa so-called during the Second World War. A British colonel, walking the quays, is fascinated by the constant flow of American ships unloading: artillery shells, tanks, trucks, firearms, rifles, petrol mines, firearms, pistols, firearms, fighter planes, firearms, anti-tasses, firearms. American Industrial Might was indeed exposed, the United States having transformed our massive industrial factory to a full war sole. The British colonel would have noticed: “The Americans do not solve their problems as much as to overwhelm them.”

It was then. It’s now. And, thanks to the years of shipping ammunition in other parts of the world so that other countries can shoot them on their enemies, our stocks of ammunition has become alarming. This, now, can finally change.

The congress paid money into the organic industrial and defense of the armed forces (the first belongs to the government and the second is led by the entrepreneur). These investments are starting to bear fruit. And even more, it is to come, thanks to the only great law on the bill for defense.

While the realization is sinking into the Defense department that the depth of the American military magazine is far too superficial, actions are underway to reverse the course and increase the “health of the shelf” of the levels of production of the country’s ammunition.

Army leaders told Congress that they had “invested $ 4.9 billion to build new [munitions] Production lines and add a new capacity and resilience to our supply chains across the country. »»

Here is the catch: we have not increased our production, not in a significant sense, since 1945. This is a problem. Our troops can have the best training, the best support, the best technology and even the best weapons in the world, but without ammunition, all of this has no more consequences than the pea of a child.

Munitions are what is necessary. And now, under the leadership of President Donald Trump and the defense secretary Pete Hegseth, the production of ammunition will resume.

Barely a few weeks ago, a new fully automated artillery factory of 155 mm called Union Technologies opened outside Dallas, Texas. This comes in the heels of another new installation of charges, assembly and ammunition which opened its doors in Arkansas in April.

On the heels, a May ribbon cup has also done a crane ammunition activity in Indiana for a new maintenance courtyard by explosive train. It was the “first time in several decades” that the army did this, said leaders at Congress. The expansion will double the production of this place after the army has found – no surprise – this space for maintaining inadequate rail during the high demand for preparation.

And:

In addition, thanks to the new recent funding, the Radford army ammunition factory integrates the advanced chemical processing capacities in its manufacturing lines. This is the only nitrocellulose and propellant manufacturing site in the United States, integrated, you guessed it: 1941.

This is what must happen. To trot another military truism, there is no problem that cannot be solved with an appropriate application of high explosives – but we must have the explosives for it to work.

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Big and Beautiful Bill provides for the Renaissance of American ammunition industries, and it is time. Nor is it a new crisis; When I was recalled in active service in 1996 for the Balkan crashes, I remember talking to a colleague who indicated that during these years of “peace dividend” of Bill Clinton, the infantry soldiers only drew their weapons once a year, for annual qualification. They were skirmishers, the heart of the armed forces of all nation. Infantry. Riflemen. Pulling their rifles once a year.

It changes.

The One Big Beautiful Bill law recently allocated an additional $ 25.3 billion for ammunition, missiles, counter-grounds and supply chain investments. If necessary, the bill establishes three ammunition reserve programs to increase capacity. More specifically, the bill allocates $ 1 billion to expand and accelerate qualification and technical data management activities to improve competition in the industrial defense database, and an additional $ 500 million for the expansion of advanced defense manufacturing techniques in ammunition.

One of the rare legitimate roles of the government, any government at all levels, is to protect the freedom and property of citizens. At the national level, it means directing the army – the army, the navy, the air force, the marine body, the coastal guard and now the spatial force. To do their work – to close and destroy the enemy with fire, maneuver and shock effect – they need ammunition, and many. One of the keys to success in modern war is the volume of fire; No war has ever been lost by having too many ammunition.

The American ammunition industry returns. Let’s just hope that it will come back fairly quickly.

Note from the editorial staff: thanks to the leadership of President Trump Trump and the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, warrior ethics returns to the American soldiers.

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