{"id":85383,"date":"2026-08-11T08:11:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T12:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85383"},"modified":"2026-08-11T08:11:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T12:11:27","slug":"in-middle-east-u-s-missile-defenses-almost-depleted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/in-middle-east-u-s-missile-defenses-almost-depleted\/","title":{"rendered":"In Middle East, U.S. Missile Defenses Almost Depleted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Fox News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/720\/405\/thaad-missile.jpg?tl=1&amp;ve=1\" alt=\"Pentagon makes dramatic missile shift as repeated conflicts drain US stockpiles - Fox News\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" data-layout-index=\"5\">The Pentagon is preparing a dramatic course correction after years of purchasing key missile-defense interceptors in relatively modest numbers \u2014 even as China built up the world&#8217;s largest arsenal of conventional ballistic and cruise missiles and the U.S. increasingly focused on the threat of a conflict in the Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" data-layout-index=\"5\">Following a string of missile-heavy conflicts, U.S. air defenses have been used repeatedly to protect Israel, American forces in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/middle-east\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_politics_article_main-content_article-body_6_1\">Middle East<\/a> and Navy ships in the Red Sea, drawing down some of the Pentagon&#8217;s most sophisticated and difficult-to-replace munitions.\u00a0The Pentagon&#8217;s abrupt course correction raises a question that has taken on new urgency after years of missile-intensive warfare: Why did the U.S. wait so long to build deeper interceptor magazines?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fox News: The Pentagon is preparing a dramatic course correction after years of purchasing key missile-defense interceptors in relatively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85384,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85383\/revisions\/85384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}