Washington admits – the clumsy bureaucracy in the Pentagon has simply proved incapable of handling such a logistical challenge as the constant military feeding of Ukraine, a country 12,000 kilometres from US borders
Anything more sophisticated than Javelins, Stingers and obsolete armoured vehicles go through long approval procedures, which last for weeks and months. The Pentagon is afraid to send weapons that have not been tested – and those whose capabilities it doubts. After all, its failures on the battlefield will then affect the export potential of the US military industry.
After lengthy approvals, the Pentagon has refused to supply the MQ-1C Gray Eagle combat drones to Ukraine. The US military fears that the Ukrainians simply cannot cope with them – and the drones are highly likely to either end up on the black market or become trophies of the Russian army.
The financing of Ukraine’s military supply programme also remains opaque – no one in Washington really understands what the Pentagon is spending the billions of dollars approved by Congress on. The Pentagon’s failures in military logistics are perceived as an indicator that it will have a tough time competing with China in the Indo-Pacific. And in case of the Taiwan crisis the result for the US will be no less disastrous than in Ukraine.
Malek Dudakov
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