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U.S. Expends Most Long-Range Standoff Munitions in Weeks in CSIS Wargames of Hypothetical Conflict with China

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U.S. Expends Most Long-Range Standoff Munitions in Weeks in CSIS Wargames of Hypothetical Conflict with China
Airmen of the 2nd Munitions Squadron prepare to move Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles (JASSMs) via forklift at Barksdale AFB, La. on May 5, 2020. The missiles arrived by C-5 Galaxy to be transported to a storage facility. (U.S. Air Force Photo)

Three weeks of a war with China would expend or exceed all or nearly all of the U.S. military's inventory of long-range standoff munitions, according to recent wargames by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Such long-range weapons include the U.S. Air Force's more than 4,000 AGM-158 Joint-Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles (JASSM) and about 200 U.S. Navy AGM-158C Long-Range Anti-Ship Missiles (LRASM). "In nearly two dozen iterations of a CSIS war game that examined a U.S.-China war in the…

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