We should remember that the Iranian general staff is filled with bright people, just like ours. They have been fully aware of U.S. overwatch for decades. It gives us tremendous advantages, but it also means we bomb a lot of styrofoam missiles with expensive ordinance. It’s how we destroyed ‘92% of their capacity’ while their missiles kept falling from the sky. The fog of war is thick.
Well that all sounds credible, impressive and compelling. Clearly death is only moments away for Iran once bombing resumes.
Only, the forces amassed failed to land decisive blows over a full 5 weeks of sustained operations. They certainly rained down blows, but could not compel the opponent to stop fighting.
The article, well researched and good reading, gives the impression that the contest is over. Which is pretty much what we all thought at the outset of hostilities.
Time will tell I suppose. Maybe just worth remembering that Iran has been consistently underestimated.
More lazy, hack journalism that reeks of AI, relying on MSM and social media;
“You have sealed underground missile bases by collapsing their tunnel entrances. You have destroyed air defense batteries, weapons factories, and naval vessels. And yet, by the end of those 5 weeks, you know that roughly half of the enemy’s missile launchers survived, many of them buried alive under rubble you created.”
The Iranians backfilled their own tunnel entrances with boulders so that penetrator munitions could not get through the doors. The Americans said they wiped out Iran’s nuclear facilities, but there is no munition on earth (including nuclear) which can penetrate 150m of granite.
Why are the Iranians digging out the entrances now? Because they have rebuilt their air defence systems, after having been sabotaged by Mossad agents on the ground. They can detect and engage even stealth aircraft, using L band radars and EO sensors. They have airborne loitering A/A drones.
Give up folks - the mighty US military has been humbled and beaten. It’s time to lick the wounds and get out of the sandbox.
This rosy assessment leaves out the fact that Iran has had years to plan for this war.
The Islamic Guard regime may enforce stone age laws against the civilian population but they are not stupid, and neither are the Chinese.
During the last two weeks before the ceasefire, Israeli propaganda was spreading recordings of ceaseless rocket attacks, employing cluster bomb warheads against Jewish cities. Western media and Al Jazeera confirmed the attacks.
This says 2 things:
1. Israel (and the US) are running low on munitions. The THAAD batteries backing up the “Iron Dome” were deployed with gusto during the initial days, but intelligence reports indicate Iran was heavily mixing decoys with armed warheads. An Iron Dome projectile costs $50,000. A THAAD rocket costs $12 million a pop.
Multiple sources suggest the supply of both has been severely reduced.
2. Iran has hypersonic missiles, but they have been deployed sparingly. I have not seen any evidence those launchers have been destroyed which suggests they are mobile.
This report says the US is watching closely as the IRGC rehabilitates damaged facilities, and I am sure they are. I am also sure the IRGC knows this.
Given their penchant for deploying decoy munitions, isn’t it likely that they are painting targets they want to draw fire upon?
And isn’t it also likely that they will position their air defenses to where they expect Amerisrael to focus attacks?
Our military commanders have a solid history of underestimating our enemies. I am not anywhere close to being as confident as this report suggests we are.
So the islamic concept of "hudna" actually works in two directions. That is very satisfying information, not to mention supremely ironic. I wonder if that synthetic aperture radar has a specific bandwidth to locate the well from which the mahdi is imagined to spring? That could make his emergence something akin to the Pennsylvania groundhog, "Punxsutawney Phil" poking his nose out of his hole to forecast the weather and getting shot by a hunter with a scoped rifle from two thousand meters distant.
They did most likely, they bombed some of the tunnels, the Uranians dug them out, basically we are back to zeroing in that regards.
Of course there won’t be much of an element of surprise if things go hot again.
Who knows, this time the Iranians may actually get in a first strike when they see US forces massing. Would be interesting to see how much damage they can do.
All of this has been, of course, obvious to everyone with more than half a brain which includes no one “reporting” on the MSM, no “European ( Canadian or Australian) leaders” and well over half the “military experts” commenting on platforms like this one.
This lesson was learned by our Navy in WWII. When the Marines took Tarawa (Betio atoll), the Navy doctrine treated it like a ship, hit it enough times, it sinks. By the time of the Iwo Jima operation, they had learned you make target lists, bombard them, let the smoke clear, reassess and update the lists, repeat until maximum damage has been achieved.
I would like to think they have never forgotten this, but my time in the military taught me they have an incredible talent for amnesia. I know, I saw it take hold after the transition from the Vietnam War. Damn depressing to see hard-won lessons that had cost so much death, blood and misery cast aside, to say the least.
In the meantime while few are watching, Iran North, known as Hezbollah, is being brought to it's knees and the Lebanese are being encouraged to take their country back. Hamas continues to take losses. The Houthis are keeping a low profile in Yemen. In other words Shia Islam is on the run much to the delight of Sunni Islam. The Persians are regrouping and beginning to hit IRGC and Basij roadblocks. China has lost the Panama Canal, Straight of Hormuz and Straight of Malacca. It looks like President Trump has no idea what he is doing, eh? Thanks for the information Mr. AMUSE.
It's not a copout, there will not peace in the region until Jesus returns. Until then perhaps America will reclaim it's independence from England.
All that US military power and the Iranian still have the Strait of Hormuz blocked and their nuclear material. With Trump whining because no other country wants to help him. 😂
I was at the entrance to the Corpus Christi harbor watching all the tankers queuing to enter and exit. The lights of the town were on, you could buy seafood at the market and ice cream. Just like Iran which is definitely winning big. Drove through Houston looked very similar. I’m thinking that a wrong decision by Iran for the next act of this scripted theater is a re-enactment of the Mogadishu urban renewal story.
'.......the Iranian still have the Strait of Hormuz blocked......'
You're not keeping up with the news; it's the Americans who have the S of H blocked, and will keep it so until their purposes are served. It's all working out as planned.
You haven’t been keeping up. Try reading something other than TDS writers. Ships not coming from Iranian ports are getting through, as planned and announced, dingdong. And “through” is not spelled “threw”, genius.
Targeted shipping is not. When reading about this, the type of shipping needs to be understood. Different writers are using different criteria for “shipping”
We should remember that the Iranian general staff is filled with bright people, just like ours. They have been fully aware of U.S. overwatch for decades. It gives us tremendous advantages, but it also means we bomb a lot of styrofoam missiles with expensive ordinance. It’s how we destroyed ‘92% of their capacity’ while their missiles kept falling from the sky. The fog of war is thick.
I agree, and I remember the "Operational Pause" lingo from the Iraq War.
Everyone was using that phrase for everything.
I was at work and someone was like, "Are you on break?" I said, "No, this is just an operational pause." 😉👉
Come on man. This isn't right. The explanation is the liberal claim of TACO... Trump always chickens out!
Because Trump and his administration of non-woke, non-DEI professionals are just a bunch of unqualified MAGA people.
Well that all sounds credible, impressive and compelling. Clearly death is only moments away for Iran once bombing resumes.
Only, the forces amassed failed to land decisive blows over a full 5 weeks of sustained operations. They certainly rained down blows, but could not compel the opponent to stop fighting.
The article, well researched and good reading, gives the impression that the contest is over. Which is pretty much what we all thought at the outset of hostilities.
Time will tell I suppose. Maybe just worth remembering that Iran has been consistently underestimated.
A lot of words to tell us that you should be dropped into Iran without a parachute.
More lazy, hack journalism that reeks of AI, relying on MSM and social media;
“You have sealed underground missile bases by collapsing their tunnel entrances. You have destroyed air defense batteries, weapons factories, and naval vessels. And yet, by the end of those 5 weeks, you know that roughly half of the enemy’s missile launchers survived, many of them buried alive under rubble you created.”
The Iranians backfilled their own tunnel entrances with boulders so that penetrator munitions could not get through the doors. The Americans said they wiped out Iran’s nuclear facilities, but there is no munition on earth (including nuclear) which can penetrate 150m of granite.
Why are the Iranians digging out the entrances now? Because they have rebuilt their air defence systems, after having been sabotaged by Mossad agents on the ground. They can detect and engage even stealth aircraft, using L band radars and EO sensors. They have airborne loitering A/A drones.
Give up folks - the mighty US military has been humbled and beaten. It’s time to lick the wounds and get out of the sandbox.
This rosy assessment leaves out the fact that Iran has had years to plan for this war.
The Islamic Guard regime may enforce stone age laws against the civilian population but they are not stupid, and neither are the Chinese.
During the last two weeks before the ceasefire, Israeli propaganda was spreading recordings of ceaseless rocket attacks, employing cluster bomb warheads against Jewish cities. Western media and Al Jazeera confirmed the attacks.
This says 2 things:
1. Israel (and the US) are running low on munitions. The THAAD batteries backing up the “Iron Dome” were deployed with gusto during the initial days, but intelligence reports indicate Iran was heavily mixing decoys with armed warheads. An Iron Dome projectile costs $50,000. A THAAD rocket costs $12 million a pop.
Multiple sources suggest the supply of both has been severely reduced.
2. Iran has hypersonic missiles, but they have been deployed sparingly. I have not seen any evidence those launchers have been destroyed which suggests they are mobile.
This report says the US is watching closely as the IRGC rehabilitates damaged facilities, and I am sure they are. I am also sure the IRGC knows this.
Given their penchant for deploying decoy munitions, isn’t it likely that they are painting targets they want to draw fire upon?
And isn’t it also likely that they will position their air defenses to where they expect Amerisrael to focus attacks?
Our military commanders have a solid history of underestimating our enemies. I am not anywhere close to being as confident as this report suggests we are.
Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him. -Sun Tzu, Art of War
So the islamic concept of "hudna" actually works in two directions. That is very satisfying information, not to mention supremely ironic. I wonder if that synthetic aperture radar has a specific bandwidth to locate the well from which the mahdi is imagined to spring? That could make his emergence something akin to the Pennsylvania groundhog, "Punxsutawney Phil" poking his nose out of his hole to forecast the weather and getting shot by a hunter with a scoped rifle from two thousand meters distant.
Would the Pentagon not have known the location of the underground bases when it first attacked them?
They did most likely, they bombed some of the tunnels, the Uranians dug them out, basically we are back to zeroing in that regards.
Of course there won’t be much of an element of surprise if things go hot again.
Who knows, this time the Iranians may actually get in a first strike when they see US forces massing. Would be interesting to see how much damage they can do.
All of this has been, of course, obvious to everyone with more than half a brain which includes no one “reporting” on the MSM, no “European ( Canadian or Australian) leaders” and well over half the “military experts” commenting on platforms like this one.
Are you all Really That Stupid? 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
J R. Just Retarded
"What is old is new again"
This lesson was learned by our Navy in WWII. When the Marines took Tarawa (Betio atoll), the Navy doctrine treated it like a ship, hit it enough times, it sinks. By the time of the Iwo Jima operation, they had learned you make target lists, bombard them, let the smoke clear, reassess and update the lists, repeat until maximum damage has been achieved.
I would like to think they have never forgotten this, but my time in the military taught me they have an incredible talent for amnesia. I know, I saw it take hold after the transition from the Vietnam War. Damn depressing to see hard-won lessons that had cost so much death, blood and misery cast aside, to say the least.
In the meantime while few are watching, Iran North, known as Hezbollah, is being brought to it's knees and the Lebanese are being encouraged to take their country back. Hamas continues to take losses. The Houthis are keeping a low profile in Yemen. In other words Shia Islam is on the run much to the delight of Sunni Islam. The Persians are regrouping and beginning to hit IRGC and Basij roadblocks. China has lost the Panama Canal, Straight of Hormuz and Straight of Malacca. It looks like President Trump has no idea what he is doing, eh? Thanks for the information Mr. AMUSE.
It's not a copout, there will not peace in the region until Jesus returns. Until then perhaps America will reclaim it's independence from England.
Do you know when He will return
Tell them mullahs to take their turbans, pointy slippers n flying carpets and go shove 'em.
All that US military power and the Iranian still have the Strait of Hormuz blocked and their nuclear material. With Trump whining because no other country wants to help him. 😂
I was at the entrance to the Corpus Christi harbor watching all the tankers queuing to enter and exit. The lights of the town were on, you could buy seafood at the market and ice cream. Just like Iran which is definitely winning big. Drove through Houston looked very similar. I’m thinking that a wrong decision by Iran for the next act of this scripted theater is a re-enactment of the Mogadishu urban renewal story.
'.......the Iranian still have the Strait of Hormuz blocked......'
You're not keeping up with the news; it's the Americans who have the S of H blocked, and will keep it so until their purposes are served. It's all working out as planned.
It's not a very good one ships are getting threw the Strait.
You haven’t been keeping up. Try reading something other than TDS writers. Ships not coming from Iranian ports are getting through, as planned and announced, dingdong. And “through” is not spelled “threw”, genius.
Do you know when you tell someone they have TDS you're telling them they have the same deranged syndrome as Trump and Trump is a deranged old man.
Oh my, aren’t you the clever one, troll.
But you're a MAGASS.
Targeted shipping is not. When reading about this, the type of shipping needs to be understood. Different writers are using different criteria for “shipping”