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The Shell Crisis of 2023: Artillery Munition Shortages Undermine Ukraine and Israel War Efforts

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The Shell Crisis of 2023: Artillery Munition Shortages Undermine Ukraine and Israel War Efforts
Ukrainian servicemen fire with a French self-propelled 155 mm/52-calibre gun Caesar towards Russian positions at a front line in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas on June 15, 2022. Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images
Austin Bay
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2023 isn’t 1914 and 1915. In two contemporary wars—Ukraine versus Russia and Israel versus Hamas/Hezbollah/Houthi Iran—history is not repeating World War One’s first two appalling years. The slaughters on Europe’s eastern and western fronts—and later in the Middle East—were so immense our moment on the planet still confronts their history-shaping consequences.

Austin Bay
Austin Bay
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Austin Bay is a colonel (ret.) in the U.S. Army Reserve, author, syndicated columnist, and teacher of strategy and strategic theory at the University of Texas–Austin. His latest book is “Cocktails from Hell: Five Wars Shaping the 21st Century.”
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