The American military are fulfilling their duties.
American politicians at home are not fulfilling their duties.
You don't start a war without strategic objectives, without strategic plans to reach those objectives, and without strategic plans of military disengagement once those objectives are achieved.
Any armchair analyst knew that any strikes on Iran would be met with retaliation, like closing the Strait of Hormuz, launching attacks against US allies in the Persian Gulf, and hacking American computer systems.
The first objective of any strategic plan to attack Iran is to have a trained, armed local insurgency at the ready to challenge the IRGC on the ground.
The second objective is to blockade any aid from Russia and China ... via ship, air, or rail, including taking out rail lines, maritime cargo terminals, and air cargo terminals.
The third objective is to take out any Iranian hackers inside and outside Iran.
The fourth objective is to secure the Strait of Hormuz.
The fifth objective is to establish 24/7 air domination of Iranian skies.
Then, you start dropping bombs.
If you are going to initiate a war, you attack your enemy on many fronts simultaneously to overwhelm their defenses and deprive the enemy of time and opportunity to counter attack.
You establish air domination to allow coventional or uncoventional ground forces to seek and destroy the enemy where they sleep.
Bombing from the air, alone, will not win conflicts. The enemy will adapt by moving installations underground, dispersing installations, making assets mobile, and adapting a mesh network command and control structure that allows installations and garrison to act independently or as part of a coordinated effort. The enemy knows, that once an asset reveals itself, it will be targeted, so it will spread them out and make them mobile so a single airstrike cannot devastate their entire defense.
If a politicians are going to put America's sons and daughters in harm's way, the politicians owe to them and their families to do everything possible to win and bring America's military home safely.
Bush '43 half-assed Iraq in 2003. Trump is half-assing Iran in 2026. This why Congress was given the power to declare war, and it is up to Congress to have the stones to tell the politicians in the Executive that Americans deserve better than military conflicts fought half-ass.
