By Garsha Vazirian

The hollowed arsenal of a fading empire

The campaign of aggression against Iran has left the American military-industrial complex in a state of kinetic bankruptcy

TEHRAN — The leak is worse than the official denial because it reveals something the White House cannot spin away: the United States has been fighting Iran with a magazine that is visibly thinning. After weeks of air and missile combat, the Trump administration is now confronting the oldest rule of warfare it spent years pretending technology had abolished: if you shoot faster than you can build, you eventually run dry.