PNN – The New York Times wrote that Iran’s response to the US attack on the country forced Washington to revise its plans and begin evacuating its embassies in the region.
This American media outlet revealed in a report that American officials say the Iranian military has shown that it knows how to adapt to battlefield conditions.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, the newspaper, citing some American sources, wrote: Iran’s aggressive response forced Washington to change plans and evacuate embassies in the region.
According to the report, Iran appears to be targeting what it has identified as US vulnerabilities, including air defenses designed to protect forces and assets in the region.
Senior US military officials said the Iranian military is updating its tactics as US and Israeli bombings progress, even as the Trump administration insists the US is “winning” the war.
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The sources stressed that Trump made these claims while his advisers refrained from expressing their concerns about the complexity of the operation in Iran. They added that Republicans are concerned about the effects of rising oil prices on their chances before the midterm elections.
According to US military officials and experts, in the 11 days since the conflict began, Iran has targeted key US air defense and radar systems in the region.
Regional resistance forces have also attacked hotels where American troops frequent. A senior U.S. military official said that a resistance group in Iraq carried out a drone attack on a luxury hotel in Erbil, indicating that Iran was aware that Pentagon troops were staying in hotels in the region.
The officials also told the New York Times that the Tehran government could declare victory by enduring the barrage. The officials said that the Iranian military appears to be targeting what it perceives as American vulnerabilities: interceptors and air defenses designed to protect forces and assets in the region.
The Pentagon announced that seven American soldiers have been killed and 140 wounded since the start of the war. Of these, 108 have returned to duty.
During the 12-day war with Iran in June last year, both the United States and Israel saw their air defense stockpiles drastically reduced, the New York Times writes. According to a December report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the United States deployed 100 to 250 THAAD interceptors during that war, accounting for 20 to 50 percent of the Pentagon’s inventory. The report said the U.S. military also used 80 SM-3 missiles, about a fifth of its stockpile.
Gen. Dan Keene, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, acknowledged on Tuesday that the Iranian military has changed its tactics. No plan survives the first encounter with the enemy, he told a news conference. They are adapting, just like we are.
Military experts say that in the past, Iran has given ample warning before retaliatory strikes, but that is not the case now. As the Wall Street Journal previously reported, Iran attacked an early warning radar system at Al-Udeid in recent days, damaging advanced radar.
The U.S. military’s communications infrastructure is highly classified, and it is difficult to determine exactly which systems may have been affected, according to the New York Times. But the locations targeted appear to indicate that Iran intended to disrupt the U.S. military’s ability to communicate and coordinate. The attack also appears to indicate that Iran was trying to damage U.S. air defenses, military officials said. Iran also attacked three radar domes at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait, another base housing U.S. forces.
A Pentagon assessment presented to Congress last week estimated the cost of the attack on the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet headquarters complex in Bahrain at about $200 million, according to a congressional official.
According to the report, in the past, Iran directed all of its drone attacks toward occupied territories. This is not the case this time. Iran has fired thousands of low-cost, one-way attack drones at U.S. allies and assets in Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Bahrain.
Contrary to some claims from Washington, Iran’s attacks have not completely “stopped,” and two US military officials said there were concerns that the Pentagon was not being fully transparent about all of Iran’s missile launch sites. The officials also said that Iran had many missiles in its possession to attack critical battlefield targets such as US radars.
American military officials and experts also acknowledged that Iran is demonstrating every day that the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader at the start of the aggressive war has not completely crippled its warfighting capability. They said that, contrary to their perceptions, Iran is not operating like a “broken” system.