The scale of consumption has forced the Pentagon to redirect weapons, missiles, and systems from commands in Europe and Asia to support operations in the Middle East.

These transfers have reduced readiness elsewhere:
In Europe, stockpiles critical for NATO’s eastern flank and deterrence against Russia have been depleted, while shortages of surveillance and attack drones and reduced training exercises are impacting operational capability.

In Asia, the impact is even greater: assets including Patriot and THAAD interceptors have been moved from key locations, including South Korea, weakening defenses against regional threats like North Korea’s growing missile threat. Naval forces have also been shifted, including the redeployment of a carrier strike group and Marine units from the Pacific.

At the same time, replenishment efforts are lagging. While the Pentagon has secured long-term agreements with defense contractors such as Lockheed Martin to increase production—aiming to “quadruple” output of precision-guided munitions and missile interceptors—actual expansion has stalled due to pending congressional funding. Until that funding is approved, increase in production cannot fully begin.

Officials warn that rebuilding inventories could take years, leaving some arsenals “worrisomely low” and raising broader concerns about the U.S. ability to handle multiple high-intensity conflicts simultaneously.

The United States of America has the most powerful military in the world, fully loaded with more than enough weapons and munitions, in stockpiles here at home and all around the globe, to effectively defend the homeland and achieve any military operation directed by the commander in chief.

The bottom line here is they don't have a pathway to a nuclear bomb, they're no longer the largest state sponsor of terrorism, they don't have missiles to terrorize the region and the world like they used to.

This has been an amazing success, and President Trump is right: don't be in a hurry; get it right.

He's the first guy in 47 years to take these guys on, and they've had their ass kicked. Let's just be patient.

European Council meeting. For the first time in years there are no Russians in the room. Huge relief.

It must be remembered that Article 2 of the association agreement between the European Union and Israel is about respecting international law and humanitarian law.

And clearly, neither in Lebanon, nor in the West Bank, nor in Gaza, is Israel respecting it.

And this must lead us to reflection and also to action.

For the first time in decades, three aircraft carriers are operating in the Middle East at the same time.

Accompanied by their carrier air wings, the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) and USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) include over 200 aircraft and 15,000 Sailors and Marines.

I carry in my pocket the image of a Muslim child killed in Lebanon, who, during my visit to Lebanon, was standing there holding a sign that said "Welcome, Pope Leo," and in this latest phase of the war, he was killed.

I cannot be in favor of war.

We do not know where this will lead.

There is an entire population in Iran of innocent people who are suffering because of this war.