CENTCOM made it official: U.S. strikes began at 8pm Eastern, the answer to yesterday's Iranian missile attack on the Jordan base.
Iranian media report explosions rolling across the south, Bandar Abbas, Bushehr, Qeshm and Kish islands, Abadan, plus missiles fired from Kuwaiti soil.
The same night, NBC dropped the other story.
Trump erupted at his own national security team last week, furious over his military options and a deal that won't close, which the White House denies.
Underneath the anger sits the real problem: his advisers are chasing THREE different finish lines.
Stop the bomb, reopen Hormuz, or destroy the missile program.
One US official summed up the war in a sentence:
"We have had a series of tactical victories, but are facing a strategic defeat."
Brandon Weichert ties the two stories together simply.
This is what a war without an agreed purpose looks like.
Iran fights like an insurgent, and an insurgent doesn't need to beat you... it only needs to outlast you, while America's oil reserve drains toward a hard autumn.
@WeTheBrandon
