From the information he reached [‘Wall Street Journal’](https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/pentagon-ramps-up-missile-production-1713956?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target), it appears that the Pentagon is increasingly afraid that insufficient weapons stocks (weakened, among others, by the ongoing Epic Fury Operation in Iran) may put the United States at hazard in the event of a possible conflict on Indo-Pacific.