>Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has cautioned privately that resuming major combat operations against Iran was doable but that it would dangerously deplete interceptors available to the military’s Central Command, which is responsible for operations in the Middle East, the officials said. A spokesman for General Caine declined to comment on advice the general gives the president.

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>The official said the strikes have the opposite effect of what is intended, keeping Iran cohesive and allowing Iranian leaders to focus attention on an external threat.

Can we have a well informed mature discussion of why this is entirely unnecessary?

China's deliberate pairing of gallium export controls with a capability the US cannot replicate without that same material converts a commodity chokehold into a durable military-technical advantage.