On Tuesday, March 28, 2023, I had the privilege to represent Legal Insurrection on “The Rod Arquette Show,” based on 105.9 KNRS out of Salt Lake City, Utah:
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I discussed with Rod the current state the United States military weapons stockpile disaster, which I have reported on here:
Rod was extremely engaging during the segment. We both decried the fact that the current state of our military’s weapons stockpiles is shockingly bad, especially in light of the seemingly open-ended commitment the Biden Administration has made to Ukraine as it defends itself from the Russian invasion.
I covered three main topics during the show:
“We are in pretty rough shape, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that we have provided to date 33 billion worth of military equipment to Ukraine. And much of it is frontline United States ammunition and missile systems. Just to run some raw numbers by you we provided Ukraine over 1.5 million rounds of 155 millimeter howitzer artillery ammunition, which is one of the key things that you need in a ground war. We provided over 8,500 Javelin anti-tank missiles, which is our main frontline anti-tank weapon. We provided over 1600 Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, which is one of our main anti-aircraft weapons. And we provided for those 155 millimeter howitzers over 5,200, what’s called an Excalibur precision round, which, you know, you launch it and then it finds the target itself.And interestingly, the Javelin and the Stinger missiles that we provided, we’ve given Ukraine over one third of our current frontline inventory of those weapons systems. And part of the issue is, is that the, the supply chain is in backlog big time for all of that stuff. And to get our Stinger stockpile back up to snuff, it’s gonna take 13 years to replenish that stockpile. The Excalibur precision rounds for the howitzers. It’s gonna take seven years to replenish those rounds. Five years for the Javelin and four years for the regular 155 millimeter rounds. And there’s a a couple of different outfits that run war games and things like that. And one of them, as I quoted in one of my articles, reported that when they ran a war game, we don’t get four to five days into a war game before we run out of precision missiles. And there was a Pentagon spokesman who kind of came out and used some Pentagon speak, said that our stockpiles are quote unquote uncomfortably low, which I translated that means we’re in the middle of a disaster.If you think about that, what that means is, we’re not in a war right now, the United States itself, but if we were, on day one the situation would be critical. Well, that’s not good.”
“Part of the issue, I think is that we have this open-ended commitment to Ukraine. I’m looking at a quote from Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army General Mark Milley, and he said, quote, we will continue to support Ukraine all the way, unquote, and quote, we will be there for as long as it takes takes to keep Ukraine free. Um, if that’s the case, I mean, what if the Ukraine War goes on for another five years? Yeah, we just keep giving them this stuff. You know what? Wow, what are we gonna have left.”
“When we start giving our frontline stuff that our soldiers are taking on deployment and that they are gonna use to defend our interests around the world, that can be a problem.And another problem is with Taiwan, Taiwan has asked our defense contractors for 19 billion worth of weapons to help them defend against the Chinese invasion. That’s all backlogged right now because the defense contractors just can’t ramp up fast enough. And as I mentioned in one of my articles, a part of the strategy for the defense of Taiwan is to use this, what they call porcupine strategy, where we use precision missiles to inflict such harm on the invading Chinese should they ever decide to do something like that, that they would have to back off. But if all of those precision missiles that we’re gonna use to do that with are depleted, then, it’s not that great of a strategy maybe.”
In summary, it was great fun being on Rod Arquette’s show, and we both agreed that this situation is something that must be addressed and fixed ASAP.
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