The U.S. Missile Shortage: Why America Can't Build Weapons Fast Enough

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/ep37Sources for this episode are available at: https://wardesk.fm/?episode=ep37About War DeskWar 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