After three weeks, how is the war going?

Did you ever go to a ballgame, only to make a trip to the bathroom while the most important action of the game took place? In just a few minutes, your team was down by three and is now leading by four.

With war, until it’s over, one has to be very careful to say definitively how it is going. Even with such caution, there are trends. Nazi commanders like Erwin Rommel knew that the war was lost once the Allies had established their solid beachhead and brought endless amounts of men and supplies to push deeper into Europe. Once Desert Storm started, the Iraqis were on their heels and watching their complete thumping from air, sea and land. The war took six weeks, with only the last few days involving a massive ground invasion that destroyed Saddam’s Republican Guard. So, a war is not over until it is over, but there are indications.

The trends to date involve the US and Israel pummeling Iran at will. Thousands of sorties with a wide range of fighters, bombers, and drones have left much of the Iranian leadership, war-fighting equipment, and industry a smoking heap of rubble. B-52 bombers, which fly slowly and are not appropriate for a highly defended area, are routinely attacking Iranian targets. The B-1 “Bone”, which was unused in most of America’s previous wars, has been prominent in flying numerous sorties. We even think that we saw one over our heads on its way to Iran. The US and Israel are going through massive target lists and adding targets of opportunity as required. Is the current effort enough to get rid of the mullocracy? Will the Straits of Hormuz be safe and open to international shipping? Will Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile dreams be shattered? I don’t know. That which I do know is that Iran has threatened Israel, the US, Europe and its immediate neighbors for decades. If this war had not been initiated by our team, their side would have attacked when........

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