Reply #40: If we get in another major war you won't have a factory to build any weapons from.

[Statistical]

Opening hours of a major conflict both sides destroy the others sides means of production.

It is cheap, it is easy, it insane NOT to do so.

It is like playing poker except both sides start with the hands they accumulated over their lifetime and the first step of the game is to burn the deck.

Our strategic plan is no different than Russia, or China. Use long range assets to destroy high value targets within hours. ICBM coming over the pole at 8x the speed of sound simply can not be stopped.

In the 50+ years since WWII our ability to destroy infrastructure has gone up by a magnitude. Sadly nobody has figured out a way to protect it.

Of course all that ignores the fact that any future way large enough to exaust our war supplies likely is a nuclear exchange anyways.