🇺🇸🇮🇷 Washington's nuclear chatter is back on the Sunday shows, but the mountain at the center of it was built to survive everything except infantry
Anthony Aguilar on what defeating a fortress like Pickax actually demands:
"It is incredibly costly in terms of lives and resources."
Anthony worked hard-target defeat in special operations, the mission dedicated to killing deep underground facilities, and his professional verdict cuts through a week of loose nuclear talk: no bomb in any arsenal finishes a mountain like this.
Subterranean fortresses die one way, with ground forces inside them, at a price no one wants to say on television.
He also revisits the briefing that haunts this war: the famous penetrator footage shown after Operation Midnight Hammer came from a test range, not from Iran.
Meanwhile the Washington steams toward the Gulf to relieve the Lincoln, one 44-year-old design replacing another.
