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.

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Sources for this episode are available at: https://nbn.fm/war-desk/episode/ep37

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