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its also cumulative. The US has been sitting on massive weapons stockpiles since the cold war and theyve just started to get used up. A lot of the shit they used in Iraq was old stuff. I mean just look at the USS Nimitz they just sent over to Iran. It's ancient.
The issue for them now is we are entering a new era. All this new stuff is needing to be made as its used because they don't have stockpiles of it. So they can't just rely on their massive warehouses of ammo, and bombs like they did in Iraq.
A lot of the stuff the US uses is just retrofitted old shit with some new tech thrown in because it reduces cost too. So like in a fight with China for example they'll be fighting brand new, high tech, mass produced chinese gear, and using cold war era gear with newer systems slapped onto them. They'll also be paying 10x as much for the pleasure.