It does seem like the MSM is rooting for the other side.
As I posted on another thread, perspective and context is important. America has hammered Iran heavily. Very heavily. Also, comparing the war with other wars shows just how heavy that hammering is.
- America lost 4,492 brave soldiers during the Iraq war with over 32,000 wounded.
- America lost 2,459 brave soldiers in Afghanistan (plus 18 CIA staff and over 1,800 contractors).
- As of today, America has only lost 13 brave soldiers in the Iranian war (more like an Iranian hammering). Everyone of those 13 soldiers a real loss, but massively low compared to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Looking at equipment losses:
- Shifting to the First Gulf War, the US lost 42 combat aircraft during the 43 days of the war. Looking at total coalition losses (US and allies), the total was 75 aircraft (52 fixed wing and 23 helicopters).
- Now, compare that with the Iran war …this is day 35 I believe, and so far we have two planes shot down by Iran (F-15 and A-10), we have the F-15s Kuwait shot down by ‘accident’, and I so in some sources two helicopters that may have been shot down by Iran (maybe). Even if you add all of that, it is very CLEAR that the loss ratio is MASSIVELY different from what happened in the Gulf war.
Bottom line: Do I wish President Trump didn’t go into Iran? Yes. However, he must have had a damn good reason to do so, and the combat losses/casualties on the US side are super low. It is a total hammering if Iran. Finally, I doubt President Trump will authorize a ground invasion as that would be a total tar baby, and he’s not dumb enough to do that.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut every once in awhile.
CC
Not mentioned was the fact that US & Israeli aircraft are likely attacking different types of targets than those hit in the early days of the conflict. Instead of command, control, and communications buildings, or weapons factories, etc., that can be approached at high altitude, they might be striking individual IRGC units and other targets that require a low altitude approach, making the aircraft more vulnerable to antiaircraft artillery fire...
Probably 10,000 sorties with maybe three or four aircraft lost is a pretty good record.
These people that expect perfection probably have a success rate of about 60% in their own lives.
What’s most important is to break the regime’s will fight, i.e. get unconditional surrender.
Cutting off their oil income and knocking out the grid will probably achieve that the quickest.
Trump did not start this war. Trump is ending Jimmy Carter’s 47-year war.
Trump needs to go on TV with the proverbial bowl of water, and ceremonially wash his hands, and say he heard the protests and that he will begin bringing all our military home. Never again will our military leave our shores to go to war.
Then the isolationist woke right, and Democrats can be all full of themselves. For a while. But when American cities get nuked by Iran don’t blame Trump.
In such a situation where a society is driven by ideology, defeat is only possible by destroying the infrastructure. You can’t destroy the population fast enough to overcome the birth rate. I would be satisfied if they were left with a 1950’s infrastructure involving no capacity for nuclear weapons and no capacity to influence passage through the Straits of Hormuz. A terrorist organization cannot be allowed to dominate the world’s economies.
This is what President Trump said on Wednesday night:
"They have no anti-aircraft equipment, their radar’s 100% annihilated, we are unstoppable as a military force."
As Rush said, "Words means things". Hyperbole to the American public is not necessary to make the case for war with Iran. Yet, the hyperbole continues.
RE: air supremacy over Europe in WWII, the strategery of the air campaign changed after the Tehran Conference and the tentative date for Operation Overlord was set.
The Allies’ emphasis no longer would be using bomber missions to neutralize Germany’s war industry, the new emphasis was on depleting the Luftwaffe’s complement of fighter pilots by using bomber missions to lure them out ... and kill them. That was when Allies’ escort fighter pilots were given a blanket order to leave the bombers once they’d delivered their bomb loads and turn their attentions to hunting and killing every Nazi in the air.
Germany had been building a corps of combat-experienced pilots since 1937. But on 6 June 1944, only 1% of Luftwaffe’s remaining fighter pilots had flown a combat mission before 1 Jan 1944. In the five months since New Years Day, the Allies had wiped out the Nazi’s wealth of combat-experienced aviators, killing 99% of all Luftwaffe pilots who were flying before 1944. Those left had little flying experience, and far less combat flying experience.
So the Allies didn’t achieve air supremacy by shooting down German planes faster than the Germans could build them (they still had planes to spare). Instead, the Allies minimized the threat to D-Day from the Luftwaffe by killing its pilots faster than they could grow new ones with combat experience.
On it’s first air raid over Schweinfurt Germany in 1943 an attacking force of some 300 B-17’s with no fighter escort faced stiff German opposition. Out of the 300 bombers 60 were shot down.
A B-17 had a crew of ten men,, 60 bombers is 600 men lost in a single raid. While the loss of even one of our soldiers is a serious loss one missing pilot shouldn’t qualify as a military disaster I should think.
I see where Hezbollah launched a SCUD the other day. That is a huge rocket where do they hide those at ?