Is it though? It might actually be good reporting of current events.

The Pentagon just asked for a $200 Billion supplemental. Enough to fund the war for another year at least. They know it's going to be nothing but mission creep from here on out.

Everyone thought George Foreman was winning the Rumble in the Jungle. Ali was up against the ropes while Foreman was unloading huge volleys of punches on him. But poor George exhausted himself, and Ali took over.

We're expending millions of dollars per missile to take out Shahed flying bombs that can be assembled in a garage.

It's hubris to go into this Rope-A-Dope blindly. And hubris has been this administration's motto.

Finding it is a challenge, but also less significant if their only refinement capability is neutralized to circling rubble quickly in a car.

I don’t watch the view. I’m basing my point on listening to direct, shifting, frequently contradictory statements from POTUS and high level cabinet members.

-I’m not sure specifically what you mean by missile bases. We have total air domination and have essentially run out of targets. Barring regime change or boots on the ground, how do we make sure “they can never rebuild”. What will stop them from rebuilding, assuming we aren’t there forever occasionally dropping JDAMs?

-their navy is already destroyed

-again, barring regime change or BOG, how do we ensure they don’t start again? How do we get the nuclear material that is scattered got knows where all over Iran?

I've deleted numerous such posts, more than on the other side actually. If I missed one, report it and give us time to get around to it.

There's no need in these thread to discuss or reference domestic politics or voters.

Wow, so you are in saying in only two short weeks we have accomplished 80% of our military objectives? God Bless the USA (I hope that dose of patriotism didn't trigger some of you as I know it tends to do sometimes)

Put up the Mission Accomplished banner!

Again, we are the best military in the world and I am proud of my fellow service members over there.

But don’t you see the pickle we’re in? Iran has no incentive now to not just launch 1000 dollar drones from pickup trucks whenever they want to keep the straight closed. Barring regime change or boots on the ground a trillion dollar military CAN’T stop that.

As I've said, I did not approve of this adventure. But now I am interested in how it's going to play out.

Nobody in the SCIF had any illusions about the SoH, I was frankly surprised that IR waited as long as they did. Mitigation measures were devised, but ultimately it was going to come to NCA as to whether gain would be worth the pain. NCA decided (I assume he was briefed on the plan).

It's entirely possible that we've serviced > 50% of DMPIs. That's just math.

That's not the same as overall operational, or strategic, objectives.

Long-term, they can be blockaded, including their oil exports.

This whole thing is a mess (which is why no previous admin went there). But it's a bigger mess for IR.