The Trump administration’s handling of the war against Iran makes the Bush administration’s handling of the invasion of Iraq resemble a masterful military strategy.
Each day of the ongoing war, new details emerge about how the Trump administration made a series of incorrect assumptions in their war planning that led to the current situation.
The Pentagon and National Security Council significantly underestimated Iran’s willingness to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to U.S. military strikes while planning the ongoing operation, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
President Donald Trump’s national security team has failed to fully consider the potential consequences of what some officials have described as a worst-case scenario the administration now faces, the sources said.
It is baffling that the administration is not considering the possibility of Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz, because Middle Eastern experts and previous administrations have believed for decades that the Iranian regime was threatened and that it would block the Strait of Hormuz.
This potential for this response from Iran was not unknown or unforeseen.
One of the most proven signals that any government is losing in some area is when the executive branch starts complaining about media reporting, such as Sec. Pete Hegseth did just that on Friday.
Hegseth said:
Some on this team in the press just can’t stop. Allow me to make a few suggestions. People look at TV and see banners, they see headlines. I used to be in that business and I know everything was written on purpose. For example, on a banner or a headline: ‘War in the Middle East’, more and more images are displayed on the screen in recent days, next to images of civilian or energy targets that Iran has hit, because that is what they do.
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