America may be discovering that the disastrous war with Iran has reverberated far beyond Iran. After supposed “obliteration” of nuclear sites last June and, we are told, 13,000 strikes at Iranian targets this time, Iran shows no sign of yielding and has the upper hand with its control of the Hormuz Strait. Despite President Trump saying, “We’re the strongest nation in the world. We have the strongest military by far in the world”, and about Operation Epic Fury, “It’s going to work very easily”, we have demonstrated that our military is less dominant than the world may have believed.
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Early in the conflict, Defense Secretary Hegseth said Iran’s missile and drone programs are being “overwhelmingly destroyed”, that the joint U.S.-Israel attacks had “decimated Iran’s military and rendered it combat-ineffective for years to come”. The President described Iran’s arsenal as reduced to only about 18% or 19% of prewar level.
But it was soon reported that more than half of the country’s missile launchers are still intact as well as thousands of one-way attack drones. Just this week a worse report: A secret intelligence assessment told lawmakers that roughly 90% of Iran’s underground missile storage and launch facilities nationwide are assessed to be “partially or fully operational”, and that Iran still has about 70% of its estimated 2,500 prewar missile stockpile. Worse of all, Iran has restored operational access to 30 of its 33 missile sites along the Strait.
inventory drawdown
The U.S. is looking at greatly diminished stockpiles of weapons. It has expended about 1,100 long-range…
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