Wars Demand Massive Quantities of Cheap Equipment

A key underappreciated lesson NATO has not absorbed is the sheer quantity of equipment needed for this kind of war — not just high-end systems but mundane items like pickup trucks (a truck lasting six months at the front is amazing); NATO procurement processes balk at buying a few hundred when that is only two months' worth of attrition in Ukraine, and this extends to body armor, gloves, tourniquets, tanks and APCs.