America has enough military capacity. Rising war costs and limited allied support may explain pauses in Iran operations better than ammunition shortages US-Iran war For quite some time, whispers have been circulating that the US was making intermittent pauses in Operation Epic Fury (OEF) against Iran, primarily because of ammunition shortages. Public differences between Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and his deputy on the issue lent credence to the theory. Now, the Pentagon Inspector General for OEF has published its first report, apparently attributing strategic inventory shortfalls and industrial-base bottlenecks in munitions supply to the war. Notwithstanding the US administration’s…