Before this war started in February, the stockpile was north of 2,300. CSIS says more than 60% of America's Patriots and THAADs got burned defending against Iran.
Replacements start arriving in 2029.
Glenn Diesen thinks that number quietly ends an era:
"countries will have to start to hedge their bets"
Because a security guarantee is only ever as deep as the magazine behind it.
Once Washington has to choose which ally gets the last interceptors, everyone watching learns what their protection is actually worth.
Seoul is watching. Warsaw is watching.
The Gulf already signed the Mecca pact.
Glenn's larger argument cuts at how this war gets scored.
Destroyed navies and air forces are inputs. Nobody wins by inventory.
If Iran finishes this holding Hormuz, it can start collecting on demands it has made for 47 years: no American bases, no participation in strikes, oil priced outside the dollar.
detail from the American side deserves more attention than it got.
Turkish jets scrambled toward Israeli aircraft with nobody warned, one decision away from an engagement between NATO’s second-largest army and America’s closest ally.
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