Every war, every time, is won or lost by logistics. There’s an old saying in military circles that when analyzing either historical or present-day operations, “Amateurs study tactics. Professionals study logistics.” I don’t just say that because I was, for a while, a logistics weenie myself, as the S-4 of a Med battalion. Just look at the American Civil War, the Great War, or World War 2, and it’s as plain as the nose on my face, the side that can keep the most beans, bullets, and bombs moving forward with the greatest efficiency wins – every time.
The same applies to Operation Epic Fury. On Friday, President Trump took to his Truth Social account to describe a meeting with major military hardware manufacturers, and it looks like there will be no shortage of stuff that goes BOOM to drop on what’s left of the theocratic regime in Iran.
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 6, 2026
The president writes (paragraph breaks added for clarity):
We just concluded a very good meeting with the largest U.S. Defense Manufacturing Companies where we discussed Production and Production Schedules. They have agreed to quadruple Production of the “Exquisite Class” Weaponry in that we want to reach, as rapidly as possible, the highest levels of quantity.
Expansion began three months prior to the meeting, and Plants and Production of many of these Weapons are already under way. We have a virtually unlimited supply of Medium and Upper Medium Grade Munitions, which we are using, as an example, in Iran, and recently used in Venezuela.
Regardless, however, we have also increased Orders at these levels. The Companies represented were the CEOs of BAE Systems, Boeing, Honeywell Aerospace, L3Harris Missile Solutions, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon. The meeting concluded with another meeting scheduled in two months. States all over the Country are bidding for these new Plants. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Being an old Cold War guy myself, I’m not 100 percent clear on the distinction of “Exquisite Class” munitions, but from context, I’d derive that this is the fire-and-forget smart weapon kind of thing that we have been using to good effect to disassemble regime assets.
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I’m fond of the old (and apocryphal) story of a British Colonel, standing on a North African dock in 1943, watching American ships unload. Marveling at the steady stream of trucks, jeeps, tanks, artillery, ammunition, rations, gas, and yes, lots and lots of American soldiers, the Brit is said to have observed, “The Americans don’t really solve their problems so much as overwhelm them.” There’s another example I’m fond of, wherein President Lincoln visited General Grant at a river crossing, and the president marveled at the massive quantities of men, ammunition, and rations moving across. Grant reportedly told him that there was one person he would like to have seen that logistics train, claiming that if this man saw it, the war would end then and there. The man? General Robert E. Lee.
It’s always logistics.
If today’s report is accurate, it seems President Trump and the munitions manufacturers of the United States are aiming to do the same thing to Iran – to overwhelm that problem. That’s how it’s done. It worked in 1865, it worked in 1943, and it will work today.
Logistics. It’s always about logistics.
