{"id":566729,"date":"2026-04-05T21:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/566729\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T21:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:59:09","slug":"the-united-states-had-enough-missiles-to-defend-taiwan-then-it-attacked-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/566729\/","title":{"rendered":"The United States Had Enough Missiles To Defend Taiwan. Then It Attacked Iran."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!stGX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5397adc2-69d9-4eb0-af30-787e1830ba59_2126x1113.jpeg\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/5397adc2-69d9-4eb0-af30-787e1830ba59_2126.jpeg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628.2220131702728\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/5397adc2-69d9-4eb0-af30-787e1830ba59_2126x1113.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:1113,&quot;width&quot;:2126,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:1200,&quot;bytes&quot;:343879,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.trenchart.us\/i\/193278477?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec3bfc05-da86-418d-8f31-8eecf70bf83f_2126x1196.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-large\"\/><\/a>A U.S. Air Force Lockheed Martin F-16 with JASSMs under its wings. USAF photo<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. military is reportedly shifting most of its best air-launched cruise missiles to U.S. Central Command for the war on Iran as the conflict grinds into its sixth week.<\/p>\n<p>But every AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Strike Missile that CENTCOM fires at Iranian targets is a JASSM that U.S. Indo-Pacific Command can\u2019t fire at Chinese targets in the event of war over Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Between combat losses\u2014especially tankers and long-range radars\u2014wear and tear on ships, planes and other equipment and depletion of critical munitions including long-range surface-to-air missiles and land-attack cruise missiles, U.S. forces are losing their ability to confidently confront Chinese forces in the western Pacific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A U.S. Air Force Lockheed Martin F-16 with JASSMs under its wings. USAF photo The U.S. military is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-566729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566729","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=566729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}