That meant brushing aside highly decorated officers with decades of experience leading carrier strike groups, thousands of flight hours on dozens of different aircraft, multiple joint assignments inside the Pentagon and shore and sea duty locations around the world. Some had multiple advanced degrees from schools like MIT and Johns Hopkins, and others had deployed in support of several conflicts like the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and Operation Inherent Resolve against ISIS.

Think maybe that might contribute to their inability to succeed in Iran? No shade to the Iranian people, they’re persevering through grit and stubborn refusal to kowtow to an illegal bombing campaign.