ArmaCheck: Defense Data Verification

>Army never had a lot of ATACMs to begin with as launching missiles at things is not really their jobIt's called the Army tactical missile system FFS. It was literally built for them. It's rocket artillery!We built only 3500 of the missiles total. We stopped investing in rocket artillery because they get very close to IRBMs, and those were banned until recently.The Marines had some, but not anymore (IIRC). Other branches have zero. The replacement, PrSM is not in any serious production yet.Other long range precision strike munitions include:Tomahawk: 10k total production through all US history

> So what is this conflict all about? Is there bigger geopolitical price tag attached to victory in Iran? Or US is just besieged by corruption to the extent campaign finding from Israel lobby as they say dictated much of the foreign policy than national interest?An optimist would say:America doesn't like Iran because it's a theocratic dictatorship that funds terrorist groups throughout the region, supplies drones to Russia, fires missiles at the only democracy in the region (Israel) and is pursuing nuclear weapons.As energy markets are global, middle east politics impacts America's vital natio

> this is pure propaganda and is completely false statement, not grounded in reality. US has no problem protecting despotic autocracies like the Pinochet's junta in Chile or Saudi Arabian theocratic monarchy (a birthplace of islamic wahhabism).No, it is not false. Geopolitics is about lesser evils and raw needs, not perfect ideological consistency. Any country stupid enough to care about that would not last very long, and so none of them do.The US has spent an extraordinary amount of money protecting freedom of navigation, discouraging conquests, and in many cases halting genocide. I'm not