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Sen. Mark Kelly said Sunday that rebuilding U.S. munitions stockpiles after the Iran war will take years, putting a hard number on a problem that has quietly become a test of military readiness. Speaking with Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation from Phoenix, the Arizona Democrat said the United States has a munitions issue and cannot replace what it has used quickly.
Kelly’s comments matter now because the debate is no longer abstract. He said the United States is negotiating with the Iranians, while also trying to keep support moving for Ukraine, which he said continues to need help after being illegally attacked by the Russians. That leaves Washington trying to manage one war’s aftermath while still supplying another front.
The moment came after Brennan asked about restocking munitions depleted by the Iran war. She said she had put the same question to Pete Hegseth last month, and Kelly’s answer was blunt: “this will take years to rebuild the stockpiles of munitions.” He said that was not a guess but the obvious result of the scale of the campaign, pointing to attacks on over 10,000 targets from the air with cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and bombs from airplanes. “We do not have an endless supply of these things,” he said.
Kelly also tied the shortage to the road that led there. He said Donald Trump tore up the JCPOA in 2018, that the United States then got into an unauthorized war with the Iranians, and that the war drove up energy and food costs for American families. He said he agreed with the president’s call to stand down, but added that he had not seen the details yet of the memorandum of understanding Brennan asked about.
That is where the gap remains. Kelly said he did not know what was holding up the US-Ukraine drone deal, but said there should not be a holdup and that co-manufacturing should be considered. He said President Trump should approve it, and he also suggested Hegseth did not seem very interested in co-manufacturing. The larger point, for now, is that the stockpile problem is not a short-term fix. If Kelly is right, the recovery from the Iran war will stretch across years, not months, and that leaves less room for error if another demand on U.S. weapons comes before the shelves are full again.
