Israel has struck Iran with devastating blows since last Thursday evening. Although delayed, the Iranians have responded in kind. Yet Iran’s retaliation, while visually spectacular, has not crippled Israeli command-and-control and military capabilities the way that Israeli strikes have to Iran since last week.

In the excitement amid the volleys and fusillades exchanged between Israeli warplanes and Iranian missile sites, even the best analysts have a tendency to forget the basic facts of conflict. The most basic fact is that ammunition, no matter how abundant, is finite. And in the case of both missiles fired by Iran and anti-missile defenses deployed by Israel, supplies will soon run out. It is only a question of which runs out first.

Like It or Not, America Is Involved in the Israel-Iran War

This is especially true because we know that the Americans have been repositioning large numbers of midair refuelers and cargo planes into Europe with orders to be on standby for a major Middle East military push by the US. One US military cargo plane in particular was tracked flying to a base in the Northeast United States, where it is believed large quantities of ammunition for........

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