“We don’t have that many [interceptors] left, and there are no good substitutes,” retired US Marine Corps colonel Mark Cancian, one of the authors of the CSIS analysis, told Al Jazeera on Wednesday. “If we run out of Patriots, then the missiles get through.”

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