US EditionSeven Days of Operation Epic Fury: US Shares Review of Attack on Iran After First Week, Says ‘Not Slowing Down’
U.S. and Israeli forces have reduced Iran's missile and drone attacks by over 80% in the first week, focusing solely on degrading Iran’s strike capabilities beyond its borders.
- On March 5, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby told a House hearing Operation Epic Fury aims to annihilate Iran’s capacity to launch missiles and drones beyond its borders.
- Facing congressional scrutiny, Elbridge Colby, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, said the military is not focused on regime change but drew bipartisan heat for limited consultation on President Donald Trump’s revised National Security Strategy.
- Adm. Brad Cooper, CENTCOM commander, said U.S. B-2 bombers dropped dozens of 2,000-pound bombs on deeply buried missile launchers, striking nearly 200 targets inside Iran in the last 72 hours.
- Within four minutes, officials noted missiles and launchers are largely gone, with about 60 percent and 64 percent respectively, and the launcher is hit as soon as a missile is launched.
- Pentagon officials argued that stockpiles and munitions enable the campaign to continue as long as needed, with officials stating `we have only just begun to hunt, dismantle, demoralize, destroy and defeat their capabilities`.
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Seven days of Operation Epic Fury: US shares review of attack on Iran after first week, says ‘not slowing down’
US President Donald Trump has called for Iran’s “unconditional surrender,” and demanded to have a say in selecting Iran's new supreme leader to replace Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, killed on the war's first day, according to Reuters.
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Operation Epic Fury Won’t Become ‘Forever War’—Goals Are Limited: Pentagon Official
Annihilating Iran’s capacity to launch missiles and drones beyond its borders is the Pentagon’s only goal for Operation Epic Fury, a senior administration official told the House Armed Services Committee during an often-fiery March 5 hearing on President Donald Trump’s revised National Security Strategy. The military is not focused on regime change or what happens in Iran once that objective is achieved, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elb…
It is not enough to behead a regime to fall, remind military experts.
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