Edited by Tumpang-Sibok at 9-4-2026 12:31 AM
Iran is a nation of ninety million people, mountainous, strategically deep, with hardened infrastructure and a battle-tested Revolutionary Guard. The idea that it collapses under a few weeks of American airstrikes is not a strategy. It is fantasy dressed up as resolve.
General Dan Cain, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivered a private warning to President Trump with the bluntness that democracies depend upon and empires routinely ignore:
“We don’t have enough ammunition to win this war. It would not be pretty.” This was not timidity.
This was the solitary act of institutional honesty still flickering inside the corridors of American military power.
The Wall Street Journal has documented an “alarming gap” in US missile stockpiles, reporting that reserves “fell significantly short” of requirements for high-intensity, sustained operations.
Pentagon contractors have been instructed to “double or even quadruple” production of Patriot interceptors, SM-6s, and precision strike missiles — a tacit admission that the arsenal built for Cold War scenarios is inadequate for the war being prosecuted today.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260305-the-general-who-swallowed-his-truth/
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