The USA has an ok supply chain, but Europe’s supply chain has been crap for decades.
Until the Ukraine War, a lot of European countries never had to care about defense as important policy. They could rely on the USA if something happened and call it a day. Now, there is a decent risk that something could happen to then and the USA wouldn’t respond.
Depends heavily on the item. With artillery shells most notably, we haven’t been making them in really significant numbers for a lot of years. Something like small arms ammunition isn’t so much an issue for us though.
The USA has an ok supply chain, but Europe’s supply chain has been crap for decades.
Until the Ukraine War, a lot of European countries never had to care about defense as important policy. They could rely on the USA if something happened and call it a day. Now, there is a decent risk that something could happen to then and the USA wouldn’t respond.
Depends heavily on the item. With artillery shells most notably, we haven’t been making them in really significant numbers for a lot of years. Something like small arms ammunition isn’t so much an issue for us though.