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America faces a crisis in our military arsenal that Trump is racing to fix

Tomahawk output would jump from roughly 60 to more than 1,000 a year under the Navy's multiyear strategy

By Gen. Philip Breedlove, (Ret.) Fox News

Published August 28, 2026 5:00am EDT

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US weighs 'Golden Dome' as Iranian missile threats grow

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The world feels more dangerous than it's been in a generation. As the United States finds itself back in active conflict in the Middle East, Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine grinds into its fifth year. The world holds its breath to see whether China moves on Taiwan. And after decades of treating our defense industrial base like a peacetime operation, that strain is exposing just how fragile America's arsenal can become.

For decades, the Pentagon has bought munitions the way a peacetime military does: year to year, program by program, with procurement requests that shift with each budget cycle. Years of perceived peace let us coast on the stockpiles already built, without reckoning with the impact this had on our........

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