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Defense budget is an abstraction. At the end of the day, there are only so many factories with only so many raw inputs producing only so many interceptors per d
by solatic 7mo ago
Defense budget is an abstraction. At the end of the day, there are only so many factories with only so many raw inputs producing only so many interceptors per day. You cannot simply increase the defense budget in the event of a war of attrition and then attempt to outspend your enemy. And this is beside the political unpopularity of high defense budgets in peacetime, when they would need to be higher, to build the industrial capacity ahead of when it would be needed.
- aftbit 6mo agoAll true, and of course the $900B plus defense budget of the USA is not dedicated to interceptors to the same degree that Iran's $8B is dedicated to missiles. Shot exchange is fundamentally an economic problem though. The USA is not going to go broke shooting down missiles - they're going to run out of interceptors. Money is a much larger constraint for Iran than the US, but even there, the real constraint is military and diplomatic.