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Shaky US Defense Supply Chain Strained by Military Aid Demands

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, senior Washington correspondent Saleha Mohsin examines the straining US military supply chain. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here.

Between Kyiv’s war with Moscow dragging on, the latest conflict in the Middle East, and shortcomings in the defense supply chain, the US may be confronting shortages of bullets — and missiles, rockets and artillery shells.