The Pentagon has exposed mass US aircraft losses and base damage from Iran war. A landmark Pentagon report has exposed the devastating cost of the Iran war for the US military:
According to the report ,59 aircraft damaged or destroyed, bases struck across the Middle East, and critical missile stockpiles depleted for up to 5 years.
On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Venetia Rainey speaks to former Defense and State Department insider Kori Schake, now a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. She unpicks how the report lays bare the under preparedness of Donald Trump’s administration for Iran’s precision missile attacks on key US assets.
They also discuss how the toll of the war has created a critical window of vulnerability that China could exploit in the Pacific if it wanted to seize Taiwan.