 The United States announced on July 7 that it will send Ukraine cluster munitions, prohibited by more than 100 countries, as part of an $800 million security package, a move Ukraine said would have an extraordinary psycho-emotional impact on Russian forces. Asked why he was providing the cluster munitions now, Biden told reporters that it was because the Ukrainians were running out of ammunition. Cluster munitions could boost Ukraine's counteroffensive to reclaim territory ceased since Russia invaded in February 2022, said Mark Kanchin, a former Marine Colonel and a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Ukraine has asked for these weapons to fire against Russian positions with dug-in troops. But Kanchin said cluster weapons would not be a game changer, adding that no single weapon is going to produce a victory. Depending on how they land, some of them don't go off and will hang around, and that number is anywhere from 2% on up, depending on the terrain. And civilians can happen upon these duds and they can cause civilian casualties. What happens is that projectile will let these bomblets loose up in the air so the bomblets spread out over an area and go off like hand grenades all over a large area. And that spreads out the weapons effects. That's why they're so good to attack areas. Classic targets would be infantry because infantry typically spreads out artillery positions and vehicle convoys. One argument is that the Ukrainians were on the defensive, so there is not a moral equivalency here between what the Russians are doing and what the Ukrainians are doing to defend themselves. U.S. inventories of other munitions are already very low. We've given it about as much as we can, so there really isn't an alternative out there now. But the other one is that these munitions are just very effective, much more effective than regular artillery against certain kinds of targets. And now with the Ukrainian offensive not doing as well as people had hoped, they need a boost and this could provide that boost. Better, please. There have been a number of members of Congress and many humanitarian organizations that have raised concerns and opposed the transfer. The Biden administration has been quite emphatic about its reasons for doing this and it has a very strong consensus on Capitol Hill, both Democrats and Republicans, that we need to send these munitions that we need to do more. Well, most of our allies have signed the convention prohibiting these weapons. On the other hand, most of them have also been urging the United States to support Ukraine and have supported increased aid to Ukraine. So I think that they are muting their reservations about transferring these weapons at this time and under these circumstances. But what the Ukrainians have to do is to be careful where they use these weapons and to avoid using them in villages, for example, because you also get very high touch rates in built up areas. They're much better in open areas. So I would hope that that insight, that targeting advice has gone along with the weapons. There's no such thing as a game changing weapon. We keep hoping that there's some munition or some weapon that we can provide the Ukrainians that will produce victory. You hear that back when there were discussions on Patriot, when there were discussions about tanks and discussions about F-16s and now cluster munitions. On the other hand, all of these weapons are useful. They're all effective on the battlefield. They will help Ukraine in its struggle, but no single weapon is going to produce victory.