Air superiority is supposed to deliver a quick triumph. But history has shown that promise to be written on the wind
To explore the roots of Donald Trump’s Iran military strategy and the pugnacious rhetoric of his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, means looking back 105 years. In 1921, a year before Benito Mussolini and his blackshirts marched on Rome to launch the Fascist era, an Italian general named Giulio Douhet published The Command of the Air, proposing a revolution in warfare.
Victory in the future, he said, would no longer come from the grinding trench combat of the great war. Instead it meant large-scale aerial bombardments, targeting not just combatants but civilians and civilian infrastructure and logistics.
“[It] is much more important to destroy a railroad station, a bakery, a war plant, or to machine-gun a supply column, moving trains, or any other behind-the-lines objective, than to strafe or bomb a trench.
The commander in chief can’t even bother to sit through briefings, I’m now under the impression the guy doesnt have any strategy at all, and instead thinks that all is well and Iran is just another stretch of desert that he can bulldoze like Israel did Gaza.
The strategy was bomb the shit out of them, and the people would rise up and take over their country, and worship Trump and Jesus.
These dolts NEVER consider a second step, or a response, beyond the “Blowing Shit Up is Wicked Cool” stage. He was literally shocked when they started shooting back, even though we’ve watched Israel and Iran trade bombs for decades. He said “Nobody could have predicted it,” but literally EVERBODY predicted it.