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Because it wasn’t planned that far. The administration probably thought it would go like Venezuela. A Middle East historian would have told you Iran has buildin
by harrall 6mo ago
Because it wasn’t planned that far. The administration probably thought it would go like Venezuela. A Middle East historian would have told you Iran has building for all our war for decades because it trusts none of its neighbors.
A second problem is that the US knew for a while that we were weak at asymmetric warfare but we didn’t fix it. There was a war game in 2002 (the Millennium Challenge, which was actually set in the Strait of Hormuz) that, though the red team did very much cheat, it did hint at a major weakness that wasn’t resolved.
There are US defense companies today that actually specialize in that but they weren’t given the same attention (but boy are they now).
- chaostheory 6mo agoWhich defense companies?
- harrall 6mo agoAnduril is the biggest one. They are based in Costa Mesa, CA and are building a bigger R&D facility in "Space Beach" (Long Beach, CA) and a manufacturing facility near Columbus, Ohio. Afterwards, you have smaller companies like Shield AI (San Diego, CA), Saronic Technologies (Austin, TX) and some other smaller ones.
- etc-hosts 6mo agoWhen one side complains no fair the other side is cheating, you've probably already lost. Relevant The Far Side cartoon: https://static0.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/far-side-fire-arrows-comic.jpg https://static0.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/...
- themafia 6mo ago> though the red team did very much cheat, My Army buddy once said "If you're not cheating you're not trying." What did they expect? That's the whole point of a red team. Reminds me of Admiral Ching Lee. He used to run red team exercises against US facilities. He once walked into a maximum security facility with a badge bearing the name and photograph of Adolf Hitler.