{"id":503946,"date":"2026-03-04T21:31:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/503946\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:31:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:31:06","slug":"top-defense-officials-push-back-on-concerns-about-u-s-munitions-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/503946\/","title":{"rendered":"Top defense officials push back on concerns about U.S. munitions shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"6XX4XRFSDJFRVMZYUU2IGYVKLE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Pentagon is rapidly burning through its stocks of precision weapons less than a week into the massive campaign of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/03\/04\/us-iran-israel-strikes-trump-live-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">airstrikes against Iran<\/a>, while also expending sophisticated air defense missiles at a rate that puts the U.S. military potentially \u201cdays away\u201d from having to prioritize which targets to intercept, according to three people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pentagon is rapidly burning through its stocks of precision weapons less than a week into the massive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-503946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}