EXCERPT:
HENNINGER: "We live in a different world now as we are discovering the war in Ukraine suggesting one of them. The new threat is from drones. It’s the sort of thing no one really anticipated. You need a lot of munitions as the war and Iran is making clear to shoot down missiles. This has become a missile war. That’s developing us the new reality but you are fighting a lot of new battles through the air and the United States industrial military industrial base was unprepared at this a moment to do that for the United States is simply going to have to increase its military spending to make up for this. A big piece of this is the ships ships. The U.S. and navy has been eroding over the years. Everyone knows that it was made so clear when the aircraft carry the Gerald Ford caught fire in the middle eastward extraordinary events have been on maneuvers for 10 months and then had to come back for repairs. Facing the threat we are from not just Iran but really from China who was a military spending is increasing. I think this defense budget was inevitable and is quite necessary at this point in time.”