That design difference is the whole answer to yesterday's question about whether Tehran's threat against American companies has teeth.
Major General Randy Manner, who spent a career moving armies, put it without decoration:
"Actually, they can harm us more than we can harm them."
The logic is uncomfortable because it's simple.
Decades under attack forced Iran to distribute everything: leadership, launchers, factories, decision-making.
Nothing sits in one place worth one missile.
America's regional presence is the opposite, a short list of exquisite targets, which is why the Lincoln ended up supplied across four thousand miles of ocean once Bahrain became too dangerous to enter.
He gives the strikes their due, saying Iranian offensive capability was genuinely diminished. Then the ledger turns.
Iran manufactures drones at scale and learned modern war the way Ukraine did, under fire.
Kyiv even offered Washington counter-drone advisers, he says. The offer went nowhere.
His readiness math lands hardest at home.
Five thousand guardsmen rotating through DC, two billion dollars pulled from readiness accounts, contributing states losing training time, all while at war.
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