This is John Bachelor from a longer conversation with Bradley Bowman of the foundation for the

defense of democracies about what Israel needs in its contest against Hamas and

imminently possible against Hisbalah and Iran and Syria and other bad actors in the region,

including the gangs of the West Bank. What does Israel need? Bradley is very clear about

the missiles needed for iron defense. However, we come to the stockpile. It's called the war

reserve stock allies Israel. And I learned that it is not complete because of Ukraine war. Brad

is very specific about that he and his colleagues at the FDD have been following all of the supplies

that are available in Israel. It is not news that there is a drain on the arsenal of democracy

in Ukraine. Now the drain continues into Israel and what is to be done if and when there is more

crises in the Middle East or in Europe or both. Here's Brad on the specifics of the

war reserve stock allies Israel. It is there. I've followed it for a while. It's not it's not perfect.

There's some things that should be in it that are not. According to reports several months back,

we did take at least 300,000 155 millimeter artillery shells out of it to give you

Ukraine. So it's not clear whether those have been replenished. But there's still a lot of

equipment in that stockpile that would be helpful to Israel as it conducts a ground

incursion to Gaza to try to prevent Hamas from having the means of conducting more murder.

Thank you.