OPINION:
The war in Ukraine is not yet a world war — and hopefully it won’t become one. However, in following the news from there and the Pentagon, I see the start of a discussion on logistics that portends dire days ahead if any real escalation takes place.
There have been numerous reports that the U.S. is having no problems backfilling our allies, who are providing weapons, equipment and ammunition to Ukraine. But just beginning to surface are comments that the U.S. is starting to monitor how this backfilling and transfer of strategic reserve military stocks to the Ukraine war effort could limit our capability in the event of an escalated war (or in the event China were to attack Taiwan in the near future).
The U.S. government’s primary purpose is to provide for the security of its citizens. Congressional and presidential efforts and goals in the past decades seem to have pushed that security to the bottom of the priority list.
This war in Ukraine needs to be fought and Russia defeated, no doubt about that. But if we cannot support a war in a single foreign country without putting at risk our own security and ability to win another world war, our president and Congress have failed to carry out their oaths of office.
Social ills must be addressed, but if there is no country left after a war started by a foreign nation, it doesn’t much matter. National security should always be priority number one.
JAMES KOUT
Bowie, Maryland
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