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Iran has made our most urgent national-security priority painfully clear

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During the 1979-1981 hostage crisis, a defiant Iran starkly demonstrated the limits of American power. 

Forty-five years later, it is doing the same thing, although in vastly different circumstances. 

Back then, a time when the post-Vietnam military was at a low ebb, we didn’t strike Iran and a long-shot rescue operation ended in abject failure. 

Now, with the US military at its most proficient and professional in history, we have inflicted punishing blows against the regime but still haven’t been able to impose our will, in part because we are running low on the munitions necessary to prosecute the war. 

Not only is this embarrassing; it is dangerous. 

If Operation Midnight Hammer — last year’s lightning strike against Iranian nuclear facilities — demonstrated the prowess of the US military and sent a useful deterrent message to our enemies, the Iran War is now doing the opposite.

We’re running low on missiles and interceptors in a months-long conflict with a beleaguered second-rate power. 

What would happen in drawn-out conflict with a major adversary?

President Donald Trump has posted a thunderous denunciation of leaks to the media about our low weapons stocks, and they are indeed........

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