If war with Iran lasts longer than a few weeks, the U.S. missile shortage becomes decisive. The defense industrial base bottleneck is severe: production lines take years to expand, sole-source components have no alternatives, and the gap between wartime consumption rates and peacetime manufacturing capacity would cripple a sustained campaign.

Sources for this episode are available at: https://www.wardesk.fm/episode/ep37

About War Desk

War Desk is an investigative podcast using AI-assisted analysis of military intelligence, diplomatic signals, and conflict data to assess global war risk, with sources and references published on our website for verification.

Produced by Island Investigation