New York Times: Iran war shows US military ‘losing its edge’
The editorial says tactical gains have not produced victory and that adversaries can now see U.S. military weaknesses.
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In theory, the war in Iran should not pose much of a challenge. The United States spends about a trillion dollars a year on its military, more than a hundred times more than Iran. With that money, it has a much larger Air Force and Navy, as well as advanced weapons technologies that Iranian generals can only dream of. In the early stages of the war, inequality developed as expected. U.S. forces wiped out much of the Iranian military. Now, howeve…
New York Times: Iran war shows US military ‘losing its edge’
The editorial board of The New York Times is suggesting that U.S. military is “losing its edge,” pointing to the war in Iran as proof. “While President Trump seems eager for a negotiated truce, Iran’s leaders do not. Somehow, the weaker nation is in the stronger negotiating position,” the editorial board wrote on Thursday. “That…
Trump’s war exposed the military’s growing weakness: NYT
The harsh "reality" of President Donald Trump's war with Iran has exposed "the vulnerabilities" that have been growing within the U.S. military for the whole world to see, according to a new piece from the New York Times Editorial Board.In the piece, published Thursday morning, the board observed that, "on paper," the U.S. military going to war in Iran should have resulted in an easy victory, given the substantial mismatch at play. While that ex…
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