[bell-cot]

This sort of big-picture military incompetence has a rather long history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_Crisis_of_1915

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_14_torpedo#Supply_and_pro...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_services_and_supply_i...

Etc. etc. etc...

[drt5b7j]

Thanks for this. The West has been such an embarrasingly flaky ally :-(