U.S. Munitions Supply DANGEROUSLY LOW Former DoD Official Warns

In this video, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald interviews Dan Caldwell, a former U.S. Marine and senior Pentagon policy advisor. The discussion focuses on the imbalance between Russia’s and NATO’s munitions production, and how this gap influences U.S. and NATO strategies in Ukraine. Caldwell argues that decades of deindustrialization, emphasis on prestige weapons systems, and political inertia have left the U.S. unable to sustain large-scale conventional warfare. He also highlights the strain of simultaneous commitments to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, suggesting that U.S. stockpile limitations are increasingly shaping strategic decisions.

This video was produced by System Update and published on their YouTube channel on the 19th of August, 2025.

To read the transcript of the interview: U.S. Munitions Supply DANGEROUSLY LOW Former DoD Official Warns

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ABOUT GLENN GREENWALD

Glenn Greenwald is a former constitutional lawyer, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, and the author of several bestsellers, including No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State (2014) and Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil (2021).  Acclaimed as one of the 25 most influential political commentators by The Atlantic, one of America’s top 10 opinion writers by Newsweek, and one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013 by Foreign Policy, Greenwald is a former constitutional and civil rights litigator. He was a columnist for The Guardian until October 2013 and a co-founder and former editor at The Intercept, which he left in 2020 to launch his own show System Update on Rumble.

ABOUT DAN CALDWELL

Dan Caldwell is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps who served in Iraq before becoming a senior policy advisor at the Department of Defense under Secretary Pete Hegseth. He has over a decade of experience in national security and veterans’ policy, working across government and nonprofit sectors. Today, he is a frequent commentator on defense, foreign policy, and veterans’ issues.