US Faces Critical Shortage of Missile Defense Interceptors, Report Says
🛡️ CENTCOM — Washington is absorbing Iranian and Houthi strikes with a magazine it can't reload fast enough. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Interceptor shortfalls mean each incoming missile costs more strategically than it costs Iran to fire. If CENTCOM is rationing, escalation calculus inverts — Tehran strikes more, US absorbs more. The "surrender" campaign assumes US offensive dominance; a depleted defensive stack quietly undermines that posture before any deal is reached.
