Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.

Important Takeaways:

• US, NATO weapons stockpile ‘dangerously low’: USAF General
• “So we don’t have nearly what we had at the heart of the Cold War. Now you add that we’re giving a lot of munitions away to the Ukrainians — which I think is exactly what we need to do — but now we’re getting dangerously low and sometimes, in some cases even too low that we don’t have enough,” said Gen. James Hecker.
• According to a July 7 factsheet, the US has provided Ukraine over $41.3 billion in security assistance since Russia’s invasion in February 2022, much of it in the form of transfers of current stockpiles rather than new production. As just one example, more than 2,000 RTX-made Stinger anti-aircraft systems have been sent to the country, leading the Pentagon to struggle to replenish the current inventory as it searches for a next-generation replacement.
• The recent controversial decision by the Biden administration to send cluster munitions to Ukraine — banned in over 100 countries due to human rights concerns — was in part influenced by a constrained munitions stockpile. Over 2 million 155 mm artillery rounds among other munitions have already been shipped to the war-torn country, and US officials have framed the cluster bomb shipments as a temporary measure to provide more time to spin up artillery production and sustain Ukraine’s ongoing counteroffensive.
• A surging demand for weapons in the wake of Russia’s invasion has stressed the Western industrial base, which had actively eschewed a wartime footing. Moves like multi-year procurement authorities have been deployed by the Pentagon to provide industry a more predictable timetable for production, but Hecker joined other top officers in calling for more action.
• Heidi Grant, Boeing’s director of business development and the former top official for the Pentagon’s weapons sales, said on the panel that industry needs more than just statements from military officials for production levels to meet their desires.
• “As far as the demand signal, we’re all talking about it. But what it really takes, what industry needs is the request. A written, on-paper request so we can start those production lines that you need,” she said. “It’s hard for us to make the investment unless we know that it’s really there.”

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