However, the most disturbing aspect of just how poorly the U.S. Army and Congress maintained our artillery shell supply chain was revealed by an internal U.S. Army document from 2021 detailing “foreign dependencies” on at least a dozen chemicals critical to manufacturing artillery shells that sourced from China and India

I wonder if some folks in China pondered whether they should be selling artillery materials to the americans and made th call that they'd never get within range of Chinese units.

You'd've thought that a Military-Industrial Complex would at least be good at doing the things that are in its name. Fancy that!