Running low on ammo ...

Final capping at the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant assembly line.

Photographer: Lyndon French/The New York Times/Redux

The World’s War Machine Is Running Low on Ammunition

The industry that keeps on killing needs more ammo, sounds like Emmanuel Goldstein/1984 whereby War, it will be seen, not only accomplishes the necessary destruction, but accomplishes it in a psychologically acceptable way.

And this ...

"The primary aim of modern warfare (in accordance with the principles of doublethink, this aim is simultaneously recognized and not recognized by the directing brains of the Inner Party) is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living." 

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Emmanuel Goldstein (John Boswall) appears in a telescreen 

during a Two Minutes’ Hate program, 

in the film Nineteen-Eighty-Four (1984) 

directed by Michael Radford.