Urgent requests for weapons will run up against the House speaker drama and the looming shutdown.
The U.S. Army wants to help supply both its Ukrainian and Israeli allies with as many bombs and other equipment as they need in their separate wars.
But it can’t happen as long as Congress in chaos.
Pentagon leadership is still in the early stages of evaluating what Israel might need to battle Hamas militants, but an administration briefing to members of Congress laid out some early markers: air-to-ground bombs, and air defense systems.
That’s their function. They advise where warfare is in the nation’s best interest. It’s always been that way.
Now Congress can and will limit them. But their capacity has always been who we should attack. It’s even parodied in movies when generals are advising leaders.