America has burned through more than a thousand Tomahawk cruise missiles and a significant share of its Patriot and THAAD interceptor stockpiles during the Iran war, and analysts warn it could take until the end of the decade to rebuild them, leaving a window of vulnerability that Beijing is almost certainly tracking.
The Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington defence think tank, has released two analyses assessing the damage done to US munitions stockpiles by Operation Epic Fury, the 39-day air and missile campaign against Iran.
