US NEARLY ALL OUT OF MISSILES: Would LOSE Major War Today

A new report into the ballistic missile industry here in the United States finds that it is bleak. It is looking really bad. Put this element up on the screen. New article in the Atlantic uh by Christopher Leonard called the THAAD delusion paints a very dark portrait of where the United States and its flailing

military-industrial complex has left itself after many months of war uh with Iran. Christopher Leonard, author of Kolkand, The Lords of Easy Money. He's also at work uh we hear on a a book on Lockheed Martin. Uh well that will be a broader look at the military-industrial complex. Frankly cannot wait um for that

one to come out. Uh Chris, thank you so much for being here. >> Uh thanks for having me. So, so can you walk us through a little bit of what you found about the basically the the the numbers game here that is at work when it comes to uh the ability of the United

States to produce uh ballistic missiles um and the the amount that they've been deploying because you're the portrait you painted I think put things in a in a really interesting and and helpful way for people. >> Yeah. To me, you know, one great place to start is that in in 10 months of

conflict in the Middle East, the United States burned through a supply of THAAD interceptor missiles that took over 9 years to accumulate. And and so when you kind of go back from there, you see a couple things. First of all, the military-industrial complex as we would call it or the the Pentagon acquisition

system and the defense industrial base that supplies it has been creeping along in a really slow manner over over many many years. That's a huge part of this story. And I wanted to look at the THAAD interceptor missile which is used to shoot down ballistic missiles because it's really illustrative of these problems. and the THAAD, you know, for