Originally Posted by
Tartiflette Fan
Read it but didn't really understand it . You seem to be saying that the US should have foreseen this type of conflict - is that correct ? If you are, it doesn't seem very reasonable, as top military folk were still saying "Yes he will/, no he won't " in early Feb 2022.
Does "being used" mean deployed from depots: but if so where? The M! and M2 definitely came from the US in desert camouflage.
EDIT: Re-read and speculate that maybe there are doctrines in place that don't allow POMCUS to be used for anything other than WW3 ( or WW3 exercises ) and so it was easier to use existing laws that allow the US to transfer defence stocks to allied powers at little or no cost other than transport ( as posited by LW50 above )
As a practical matter, someone in the J4 of the Joint Chiefs would need to figure out - if something like this were to be approved - a time line for the proposed depletion of POMCUS stock and the backfill by MTMC (or whatever acronym they use now) from CONUS (or other) assets.
In plainer English: if 20 Bradleys were to be moved from a POMCUS site to somewhere in Ukraine, 20 others would need to show up in a port somewhere, get on a ship, and make it across to (wherever that POMCUS site is) to return that warehouse's stock level to the required number.
Since those cost quite a bit of money, would be very tough to do on the sly and thus a bit of political wheeling and dealing would doubtless be necessary...