"A good intelligence officer who smells flowers looks for a funeral. If your job is to search for the contradictions, flip-flops, lacunae, and flat-out lies in a spokesperson's happy talk, you will find them."
"Air superiority-a term of art-means that you can do pretty much whatever you want from the air in given times and places, not that the other side is unable to shoot back."
"When an American F-15E was shot down over Iran and an A-10 so badly damaged that its pilot had to bail out over Kuwaiti territory, one major news organization declared that this belied earlier assertions by the Trump administration that U.S. forces had obtained air superiority."
The perception of a grim outlook on the U.S. war with Iran is influenced by various factors. The Strait of Hormuz appears under Iranian control, and missile attacks continue in the region. Journalists and analysts often adopt a skeptical stance, driven by professional norms that favor caution. Misunderstandings about military terms, such as air superiority, can also contribute to negative interpretations. The tendency to highlight failures over successes further perpetuates a pessimistic narrative regarding the conflict and its management by the Trump administration.
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