Absolutely shocking story about the failures of industrial policy that have now manifested in NATO ammunition shortages in Ukraine. Years ago the U.S. government basically decided that artillery shells are obsolete and stopped making them. Now Ukraine is outgunned in a war of attrition with a rival that never gave up producing these types of cheap munitions necessary for grinding warfare. American defense contractors are too focused on cashing in on shiny gadgets often more useful for counterterrorism than fighting a genuine war.

reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-artillery/

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Part of it iirc is the explosion at camp minden( local to me) company buried so much rocket propellent, one of bunkers blew up, whole plant has been shut down since. It was only plant making the black powder propellent for certain artillery rounds, plant is like ten miles from house

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/03/david-vitter-camp-minden-true-blood/

It's a pretty bad situation, they started to burn it in open furnaces,  and then epa was like uh no that's bad so Joe it chills,  like a couple million tons of blackpowder and rocket propellant