Admiral Mark Montgomery, one of the few retired flag officers who speaks on the record while colleagues hide behind "unnamed official," expects that tempo within days, matching the peak of the March war.
The buildup spells it out: the largest C-17 and C-5 transport surge from Europe since March, fresh fighter squadrons, electronic warfare aircraft, and above all the bombers, because a single B-1 delivers the precision payload of eight to ten fighters.
Together it hands Trump war-peak firepower with no need for Israel at all.
Pickaxe Mountain is on the target list, and the Admiral drew the limits exactly.
The weapon a B-1 would drop there is large but no bunker buster.
A raid can seal doors and wreck entrances; whatever sits deep inside survives.
What troubles him lives beneath the tempo.
Offensive missiles are entering a cheap 3D-printed era at a tenth the old price, while every defensive interceptor still costs $4 to $10 MILLION a shot, and those are exactly the rounds draining fastest.
"We're not ready for this war," he said of the defenses America skipped for twenty years.
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