Bloomberg Surveillance · Tuesday, August 11, 2026
The US military is reportedly running low on critical missiles and munitions, potentially impacting the ability to fulfill the President's orders and increasing risks to forces. This shortage is attributed to a "generational gap" in missile production, which could take years and billions of dollars to rebuild.
“Well, they're not telling him that they can't get it done, but they're saying that they are running low of some of the most critical missiles and munitions that they might need to carry out the president's orders.”
“And that means that it's going to take years and years to actually rebuild this at billions of dollars, and so the Pentagon has made a lot of efforts to try and ramp up production, working hand in hand with those prime contractors, but the goal there is to ramp up by twenty thirty.”
“That means that there's going to be that gap in time, and that's a really, really scary place to be when we're looking at the potential for deterrence and the ways that other potential adversaries could come in and try and erode US military might as well as global stability.”