The f-35 made Israel win a war against Iran that they wouldn't have survived otherwise. That was the point I made.
So Israel didn't win the war with Iran. Neither side was even trying to win an absolute victory. Iran proved the Iron Dome wasn't all it was cracked up to be and Israel failed to deliver a knock out blow to Iran's nuclear program so it called in the US. for backup. Iran doesn't want a full out war with the United States so it hunkered down and took the blow. The Houthis are STILL shutting down shipping in the Red Sea and Trump tucked tail and pulled out after a couple of near misses from the Houthis on an F35 and a U.S. carrier. In fact an F35 was lost to the Houthis because it fell overboard after the carrier was forced to take evasive maneuvers. If the Houthis can lock on to an F35, the Iranians can shoot one down. And that's before Iran got updated air defense from Russia and J10s form China.
Not through air power alone. Tell that lie to all of the marines who landed on Iwo Jima, the Philippines and other island strongholds. The only war that was arguable won by air power alone was the Bosnian war. And a stealth attack plane got shot down in the conflict.
So dropping nukes on Japan at the END of island to island fighting after Japan was basically already beaten isn't the same as winning a war from "air power alone." And nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki doesn't even count because we haven't used nukes before or since in war and WE CAN'T USE THEM AGAIN! Yes. If the U.S. decided to nuke Iran there is precious little the Iranians could do to survive. But that's a very real chance that Russia might nuke the U.S. in retaliation and it would be game over. Not to mention that the U.S. would become a world pariah. Furthermore F35s would not even be needed for a nuclear strike as that could be done with ICBMs.
A bunch of conscripts surrendered but not the Republican Guard. When the U.S. faced the Republican Guard they ended up with a tank on tank battle. Yes the U.S. won but it wasn't air power alone.
Wrong. That's the consolation prize Trump fed you after it became clear the initial objectives could not be achieved.
After two years of trying, the Houthis have yet to hit an American warship. That’s not to say they haven’t been close. As the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) made an evasive maneuver on Monday, an F/A-18E Super Hornet slid off an aircraft elevator, according to multiple reports. On Tuesday, the...
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Under the Trump administration, the U.S. has taken a more aggressive approach to its attacks in Yemen. As part of Operation Rough Rider, the U.S. has targeted Houthi infrastructure and leadership to deter and “disintegrate” the Houthis, U.S. Central Command said Sunday. The White House has said the operation will continue until freedom of navigation in the Red Sea is restored. While CENTCOM has not provided casualty numbers, Houthi and independent organizations claim the number of civilian deaths has increased compared to the strikes under the Biden administration.
Operation Rough Rider launched on March 15 with CENTCOM strikes on Houthi sites. The Houthis resumed their attacks on U.S. warships, which paused when the Israel-Hamas ceasefire went into effect in January.
Since then, U.S. Central Command forces, which include the Harry S. Truman and Carl Vinson carrier strike groups, have struck at least 1,000 Houthi targets, according to a Tuesday news release from the Pentagon.
Despite all of the bombings, the Houthis were neither "deterred" nor "disintegrated" and "freedom of navigation" of the Red Sea has NOT been restored as the Houthis are STILL targeting ships headed to Israeli.
Yemen's Houthi rebels likely have targeted a ship in the Red Sea
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At least three of the 25 people on board the Eternity C were killed after it was attacked by the Iran-backed group.
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The United States was NEVER the primary target of the Houthi attacks on shipping. Israel was and remains the target and the Red Sea remains effectively blockaded with respect to Israel.
