If that’s not poor intelligence then how do you explain underestimating your enemy like Afghanistan or Iraq?
American intelligence sucks ass. Look at how badly they fucked up Afghanistan.
This is such a pedestrian way of looking at things. American intelligence predicted Putin’s invasion and held firm to that prediction despite recalcitrance from the Germans, French etc.
American intelligence + surveillance is a big contributor to Ukraine’s success so far.
You’re basically claiming “US intelligence isn’t perfect so it sucks ass”.
They couldn’t even foresee that a war with Russia would deplete their supplies within one year and that’s with drastically overestimating Russia’s power.
Now China who is actually on or with them how long do they expect their ammunition to last then?
The problem is you don’t fully understand what you’re reading and youre misinterpreting things. The reports are that some of US surplus munitions are being impacted because they’re drawn out faster than can be replaced in a non-wartime scenario. This only impacts stuff like HIMARS missiles.
The US still maintains a staggering amount of weapons, they haven’t provided Ukraine with the vast majority of their weapons systems. In a real war against a near peer, they’d be raining down cruise and ballistic missiles and relying less on 80km range HIMARS. Their air based weapons are untouched. Cruise missiles are untouched. Naval capability is untouched. They haven’t provided Ukraine with any tanks yet so they’re stuffed with Tanks and tank munitions. Heck, the US has thousands of Bradley fighting vehicles and Hummvees in storage.
There’s way more than enough to fight effectively if need be…and that’s before going to wartime footing where they’d ramp up weapons and ammo manufacturing.
