Damning Pentagon Leak Reveals Huge Blow to U.S. Defenses

Damning new data from inside the Pentagon suggests that U.S. forces are currently expending more resources defending Israel from missile strikes than Israeli forces themselves.

Three officials with knowledge of Defense Department assessments told The Washington Post on Thursday that the lopsided effort “underscores the extent to which Washington has shouldered the burden of countering Iranian ballistic missile strikes during Operation Epic Fury.”

U.S. forces, according to those assessments, have used up to half their total inventory of certain high-altitude interceptor systems, while Israel has deployed its own at a slower rate.

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Justin Logan, who directs defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, a libertarian D.C. think tank, also argues the imbalance suggests a betrayal of Trump’s oft-touted “America First” agenda.

He noted that the Pentagon is thought to have assessed last year that it has as little as 25 percent of the key air defense systems that would be needed to meet the demands of current U.S. defense plans. “Why this wasn’t a screeching siren to Trump officials is a mystery,” he told the Post.

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