“But if you look at this chart, what you see very clearly is this is much, much smaller than, say, the five aircraft carrier strike groups that were in the region for the second Gulf War in 2003. It is even smaller than the, campaign, the number of forces that were there for the strike campaign against Iraq in 1998.”

“Like we're genuinely low on munitions, especially like air interceptor missiles for the Patriot missile batteries, things like that. The Israelis are too after the 12- day war.”