U.S. forces launched a fresh round of strikes on Iran Sunday night, a day after the two countries traded attacks in a week of renewed fighting.
U.S. Central Command said the attacks were meant “to continue degrading their ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial ships freely transiting the Strait of Hormuz.” CENTCOM did not say what was targeted or how many sites were hit, but Iranian media reported explosions at several locations in southern Iran, including Bandar Abbas and Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz.
Author: Michael
Ukraine’s deep-strike campaign is the most successful thing it has done all year, and Volodymyr Zelensky has been explicit that the point is coercion: make the war hurt inside Russia until Putin negotiates. The instinctive next question is how much further he can push.
But the real limit on the strategy may not be Putin’s tolerance for pain at all.
T-84 Tank from Ukraine War. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
T-84 Tank Ukraine. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
After World War II, the U.S. military had a new problem to figure out: Just what could a nuclear weapon do against a conventional force? To figure that out, the Army and Navy teamed up for the first post-war nuclear tests, assembling a massive fleet, tens of thousands of troops and several of its then-limited atomic arsenal for what would be dubbed Operation Crossroads.
What resulted was a pair of nuclear tests that sank several ships and rendered dozens inoperable, and heavily contaminated the Pacific islands the explosions took place in. 80 years ago this month the U.S.
U.S. forces hit more than 100 targets in Iran Saturday evening, the latest in several days of renewed fighting between the two countries.
Saturday’s strikes involved munitions fired from fighter jets, ships in the nearby waters and U.S. drones, according to U.S. Central Command.
“Targets included Iranian missile and drone sites, naval capabilities, ammunition storage facilities, communication networks, and coastal surveillance locations,” CENTCOM said in a statement.
Summary and Key Points: As Ukrainian drones batter Russia’s refineries and a fuel crisis spreads across the country, Vladimir Putin faces mounting pressure to hit back harder. Western analysts who study Russia’s escalation options have mapped what those blows could look like below the nuclear line, from cutting undersea cables to a covert land grab on NATO’s border. The most dangerous of them all is a direct conventional strike on NATO territory itself, the one move most likely to trigger the alliance’s mutual-defense clause.
Russians Want the War to End, But Putin Is Doubling Down: As Ukraine’s long-range drone campaign moves from one success to another, inflicting major damage on the Russian military and economy, it is becoming abundantly clear that it’s not enough to force President Vladimir Putin to back down.
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Trump Promises 1,000 Missiles Will Hit Iran After His Assassination In New Threat: U.S. President Donald Trump issued a shocking warning on Friday, July 10, telling Iran that in the event he is assassinated, he will wipe out the entire country with more than 1,000 missiles. Writing on Truth Social, the president appeared to be responding to reports of Israeli intelligence indicating that Iranian militants were planning the assassination of the U.S. president.
BFBS Forces News speaks with Defence Analyst Ja
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