Henry Kissinger, American diplomat and Nobel winner, dies at 100
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That’s because the U.S. military lacks the capacity to provide some of the weapons Israel requested, according to Gen. CQ Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In addition to Israel, the Biden administration has sent an enormous quantity of materiel to Ukraine since Russia’s 2022 invasion. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro told Congress in April the service is “approaching $1 billion in munitions” it needs to replenish as a result of its Red Sea operations. Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)Meanwhile, Israel and Ukraine both need U.S.-supplied air defense systems, including the Patriot, a system Taiwan also uses. And as the department replenishes systems to those three partners, it hopes the additional munitions demand will pump resources into lagging munitions production lines.
