Iran War

[LittleFuzzy]

When the Ukraine war started there was a lot of good commentary and public analysis done, but it's a lot harder to find for this, here in the US. You can find cheer-leading and doomish talk but it's kept mostly vague and abstract and of course I don't trust a word from official government sources. I know any kind of semi-reliable information is going to be harder to come by in general, compared to the first six months fighting in Ukraine but does anyone have some decent sources?

[BluntHorse]

You should be supporting Operation Epstein Fury unconditionally, like you have been supporting sending American treasure and service people to die for Israel. And if you don?t support it like you used to, you are an antisemite.

[Aimless]

When the Ukraine war started there was a lot of good commentary and public analysis done, but it's a lot harder to find for this, here in the US. You can find cheer-leading and doomish talk but it's kept mostly vague and abstract and of course I don't trust a word from official government sources. I know any kind of semi-reliable information is going to be harder to come by in general, compared to the first six months fighting in Ukraine but does anyone have some decent sources?

Amwaj, and their EIC's recurring interviews on CNN, see eg:

https://bsky.app/profile/protik.bsky.../3mgpv6amkqk2w

Full disclosure: he's a notorious liar and a pervert however, also one of only a handful of high profile analysts with dispassionate perspectives based on extensive policy work on different sides of this toxic relationship (eg. JCPOA negs, diplomatic consultancy).

You might also enjoy this analysis on unexamined assumptions abt Iran's drone economics:

https://www.phenomenalworld.org/anal...t-of-a-shahed/

[Steely Glint]

It's guess it's hard to do analysis when the US hasn't really been coherently articulate what their objectives actually are.

If the belief was that bombing Iran and killing the top leadership was going to induce regime change, that obviously hasn't happened. As of 19 days after the start of the war Iran is also still able to deliver attacks against Israel and the gulf states and threaten shipping in the strait of Hormuz, even after a Desert Storm level air campaign, so I would suppose that would mean the US/Israel seriously underestimated how resilient Iran's drone and ballistic missile forces are. China will be taking judicious notes about the effectiveness of US AMB interceptors vs the more advanced types of ballistic missile.