Military Watch Magazine – May 24, 2026
The United States has indefinitely suspended the delivery of Japan’s first 400 RGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles, due to serious shortages of the missiles in the U.S. Navy that have resulted from the 39 day U.S. assault on Iran. The Financial Times, citing “several people familiar with the discussions”, reported that U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth informed his Japanese counterpart, Shinjiro Koizumi, about the delay earlier in May. Commenting on the delay, Asia security expert at the American Enterprise Institute Zack Cooper observed: “Despite repeated promises from top administration officials that they would prioritise Asia, the Pentagon is now giving precedence to the Middle East… Given the lengthy timelines for munitions production, Asian allies and partners will continue to feel the impact of the Iran war long after it ends.”
The U.S. Navy was by the final week of March estimated to have expended close to 1,000 of Tomahawk cruise missiles, of a total arsenal of between 3,000 and 4,500 in its total inventory. Pentagon sources at the time raised serious concern regarding the rapid depletion of of the arsenal, with officials speaking to Washington Post stressing that the issue of depletion of scarce and high cost munitions types has been a matter of growing importance for the Department of War. Analysts have estimated that the U.S. launched attacks on more than 6,000 Iranian targets in the first 10 days of attacks alone, almost all using costly beyond visual range weaponry. The Tomahawk is the U.S. Navy’s primary weapon for medium and long range land attack roles, and is integrated onto destroyers, cruisers, and attack submarines. The missile in the late 2010s began to also be integrated onto ground-based launchers.
The Japanese destroyer JS Chokai in March became the first in the country’s history to complete crew training and ship modification to enable the employment of Tomahawk missiles. Although the U.S. and Australia have for decades integrated Tomahawks onto their AEGIS destroyers, with South Korea having integrated indigenous cruise missile types onto its own, Japanese doctrine has since the early Cold War years emphasised the use of destroyers for anti-submarine warfare and air and missile defence duties, rather than for land attack roles. This has rapidly changed from the late 2010s, however, as Japan has procured assets optimised for launching deep strikes into hostile territory. Japan’s transition towards fielding assets better optimised for offensive operations has fuelled considerable controversy domestically due to the country’s pacifist constitution, but has received considerable support in the Western world.
The U.S. Navy has in previous years procured Tomahawk missiles at rates of approximately 50 per year, with the low rate of production meaning that recovering stocks of thousands of depleted missiles could take several years even with projected increases in production and reductions to exports. The fallout from the war with Iran has seriously depleted stockpiles of multiple types of armaments, with types that were particularly exhausted including Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM), Patriot, THAAD, SM-3, and SM-6 air defence interceptors, and GBU-57 penetrative bombs, among others. Many of these were depleted to even greater extents than Tomahawk cruise missile stockpiles. Analysts have thus raised serious questions regarding the blunting of the U.S. Armed Forces’ ability to wage high intensity conflicts in future.
Japan is one of multiple clients for U.S. defence products that has seen equipment deliveries seriously delayed as a result of severe post-war shortages. Acting U.S. Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao on May 22 confirmed that the delivery of $14 billion worth of defence equipment to the Republic of China Armed Forces had been temporarily suspended, which is expected to exacerbate the already considerable delays to defence supplies. Outstanding backlogs of undelivered U.S. military equipment to the Republic of China Armed Forces had by December 2025 already reached over $21.45 billion. Japan had also faced serious issues with deliveries long before the war began, with the Japanese government Board of Audit having revealed in January that military equipment worth approximately 1.1 trillion yen ($6.9 billion) purchased from the U.S. under the Foreign Military Sales program more than five years ago had yet to be delivered.
Washington previously informed several of its European allies to expect delays in military equipment deliveries due to the severe depletion of during the conflict, while from late March multiple reports also indicated that the Department of War planned to redirect military equipment supplies originally designated to arm Ukraine for its war effort against Russia to instead support the war effort against Iran. Secretary Hegseth at the time emphasised that replenishing U.S. arsenals depleted during attacks on Iran took precedence over supplying Ukraine. The U.S. Armed Forces have also withdrawn stockpiles deployed in strategically key locations abroad, with a notable example being the withdrawal of THAAD and Patriot air defence systems from South Korea specifically for redeployment to the Middle East. This has fuelled calls in Seoul, including from President Lee Jae-myung, to limit reliance on the United States for the country’s security.
The oldest Spiritualist church in the UK
is the vestry rd church in walthamstow east london
it dates back to 1860, but did not really take off until 1880
It was after w w 1 when every family in the Uk lost at least one person
that the church began to fill with folk looking to make contact with dead loved ones
The Church has now had to close, the long running roof repairs fund, was embezzled by its
last resident medium Keith Hudson, for his alcohol and rent boy problems.
He ran groups for school boys over the years, and several times police wanted to charge him with offences against boys.
In wood st David Miller rana psychic bookshop affiliated with vestry rd church,
Almost ever day keith Hudson would be in there to offer his services
David knew of keiths reputation as a homosexual who faked readings, and kept saying no.
Keith ran a whispering campaign against the young lad who did readings in the shop, who was a gifted healer, who shortly after died of asbestos lung
Keith ran a campaign against this lad and another lad whom he had a crush on called ” ginger”, who rebuffed him, and keith then began a vicious campaign to isolate him
Every religion there is speaks out against homosexuality, yet church secretary Ann Cullimore
covered up for keith, up until she found out the church funds had all been pilfered.
Keith was finally charged with several cases of abuse, thanks to the woodford spiritualist church who informed police, but keith died shortly after, the spiritual people magazine said he was the biggest psychic fraud since yuri geller
Keith drunk the money for church repairs and an offer has now been put in to turn the ancient building into a mosque
And Japan needs those missiles, because it’s at war with how many countries? What’s more, being one of the most advanced countries in the world, it can’t make its own missiles, obviously. My guess is: The missiles are made there using their slaves in factories owned by the families, then the poorest people in Japan are forced to buy them from themselves by the vampire they now have for “prime minister”, who’s a self-proclaimed member of the families who destroyed their constitution, which prohibited their leaders from taking them to war ever again.
THE END IS NIGH, repent now
The UK now has a national debt which is £2,9 trillion
the interest grows at £5000 per second
This is unpayable
Tony Blair gave the UK to Rothschild
You think you own your car
no you dont, you are now only the registered keeper
You think you own your home ? no you dont
you are now only the occupier.
You think you own your children? no you dont
they can come take them in the middle of the night and give them
homosexuals and they do.
Understand, you as the man said will ” own nothing”
Shops in every high street are being closed, amazon will take over soon with deliveries
by drone straight to your home.
You will be trapped in your homes.
The jewbankers are closing banks all across the UK, as they will collapse our economy
Your telephones will all be cancelled. it will be mobile phones only.
Mass surveillance by Mossad will determine those who spoke out on israeli crimes
will have their bank account closed, being debanked and disallowed from shopping at the jewish
supermarket cartels
Tony Blair, one of the 3 greatest UK traitors wanted New labour to make the leader of the Pedophile Information Exchange Peter Tatchell to be given a safe labour seat as a labour MP
, prior to legalising child sex.
which is legal in israel
Rupert Lowe is your only hope
The US is still gaining assets. Argentine President Javier Mileil is granting them concessions that are more a sell-out than a deal, as the Falklands (and its undeveloped oil fields no doubt) become a joint “global commons” run by both countries. And Mileil will claw back $46billion from the military budget, which sounds suspiciously equivalent to the $40billion [plus interest] Trump’s Treasury gave Argentina to bail out US investors who made some bad calls there. This will leave their bases without electricity, gas and food for troops (their warning not mine), so it appears their troops must go unpaid and unfed to pay back Wall Street.
I’m convinced this is all so Israeli citizens can move there and more easily take control over the place when Israel shrivels up and dies, forcing them to flee the last nest they fouled.
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/184906
Japan should be grateful it’s not receiving any missiles from the U.S. Does Japan really want to fight a war against China for the U.S.?
It’s time for the U.S. to stop being the aggressor
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
It is better to keep your missile stockpiles secret and let people think you are well armed than to waste many thousands chasing a global dictatorship and remove all doubt.
It is better to keep your missile stockpiles secret and let people think you are well armed than to waste many thousands chasing a global dictatorship and remove all pretense…
Oops
Pretence.
All pretence that America observes freedom, liberty and human rights is just that; pretence and nothing else. Looking more like a murderous rogue state each and every day.
Alas, it’s running out of weapons.
Looking forward to the day when the rest of the world stops underwriting this largesse with financial support.