China threat looms as Trump and Hegseth rage over munitions

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The Trump administration is vehemently disputing reporting about how diminished U.S. critical munition stockpiles have become due to the war in Iran. But their denials fail to square with the fact that many experts believed the military wasn’t prepared for a war with a peer adversary such as China, even before the conflict began.