Six months into the war with Iran, the United States has fired 850 Tomahawks, emptied its LRASM and JASSM-ER inventories, expended essentially every ATACMS and PrSM in the arsenal, and burned through the SM-6 and PAC-3 interceptors it had been stockpiling for a fight with China. The administration&#x27;s position is that the munitions are fine and the people saying otherwise are committing treason. Bryan Clark is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute and a former submarine officer who runs war games for the Navy and its allies. Justin McIntosh is a retired Army Special Forces soldier — twenty years in, sixteen of them as a Green Beret — who now writes Mind of Things on defense, technology, and foreign policy. We discuss… Why 850 Tomahawks in two months emptied the stockpile that was meant for China The leak hunt at Camp David, and why it should be a very short list How &quot;lethality&quot; became a testosterone prescription instead of an ammunition line item Japan&#x27;s new defense strategy, which finally names China out loud — and bets on one-way attack drones Whether AUKUS Pillar 1 is quietly consuming the rest of the Australian military Why manned-unmanned teaming keeps failing in the war games, and what the CCA program got wrong Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

WarTalk: Out of Ammo for Real + Are CCAs Dumb?

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Hey, Jordan. Good morning. Good morning. How are you doing? So I'm gone for the next three Fridays. So we're going to have a little August recess. That's good. It really matches up with Congress, which is good. Exactly. We should follow their schedule. Yeah, I think that's all right. We would never produce an episode. We would constantly record but never actually release. That's right. Lots of activity, little performance.

Jordan would just be up all the time. It's coming. The next episode is coming. It's going to be great. Should we do, let's do Iran in like two minutes. And then we'll talk about Asia things. Can we add in that we're, that we're chasing leakers again? Oh yeah. Just for like, it doesn't need to be a super big one, but like that's becoming the new stomping.

Talking point on the, on the hill about the munition stockpiles. There's no issue, but the leakers who are leaking it. That's right. They should go to jail. This isn't exactly. This is not really a thing. You know, we have plenty of munitions, but by the way, the people that are talking about this should be prosecuted. Says the guy who puts an Atlantic reporter in a top secret signal chat. That's right. I don't know. I've never talked to that guy before.

I know I possibly had his signal ID in my contacts list. So Brian, like just talk us through like the munitions piece, like where we're at. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good, a good point. So we've been at war for now six months. And because we didn't want to put forces at risk because we didn't really get buy in from everybody that this war was a good idea and go to execute it.

WarTalk: Out of Ammo for Real + Are CCAs Dumb?

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