The New York Post reports CENTCOM's commander has drafted a two-week, large-scale bombing campaign, the biggest operation since the ceasefire.
Colonel Larry Wilkerson, who taught at the Naval and Marine Corps war colleges, measures the plan against one number: not a single American carrier has come within a thousand miles of Iran's coast.
"One carrier, 24 hours. Two carriers, 72 hours.
Three carriers, indefinite air ops."
Why they stay away tells you everything, and his answer is worth the full interview.
He also explains why America's other war commanders are furious at Washington over vanishing munitions, what a former defense secretary privately told him about the physics of shooting down missiles, and the Iranian weapons he says nobody has seen used yet.
Some wars run out of plans.
This one keeps running through them.
