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I’m a visual thinker, so I just put this “active vs. passive defense” info-meme together. No A.I. was used. The images are from the internet, the text is mine.
We’re fighting this war on the other side of the planet, and our personnel and extremely expensive and difficult to replace assets are sitting exposed above ground. Iran is fighting on its home turf, using its geography to great advantage.
Iran is six times bigger than Colorado, with significantly higher mountains (up to 18,000 feet). Tunneling into solid granite is something Iranian engineers mastered decades ago. Locating and striking a tunnel entrance with a multi-million-dollar standoff weapon does little to nothing to stop Iran from launching their ballistic missiles. These “missile cities” are built like gopher towns, with many entrances. Earthmoving equipment is on standby to clear temporarily blocked entrances, while the others remain operational.
Our 20th Century Navy and Air Force are confronting 21st Century warfighting realities, and they are not prepared. Our current force structure was perfect for [A] enriching the MIC and their political backers and [B] beating the snot out of banana republics as a demonstration of our power projection ability. But now Iran is backing us down, and they are spending only a tiny fraction of the US military budget.
