The New York Times, citing officials from the Trump administration: For now, Trump has backed away from his plans to broadly escalate U.S. military attacks against Iran. One of the main concerns is that the expansion of the war could further accelerate the consumption of the Pentagon’s dwindling stockpiles of Patriot interceptor missiles and other air-defense munitions in the Middle East.

A threat to interceptor missile stockpiles is one of the key factors that has made the return to large-scale military operations a high-risk move.