Bob Pittman

I was talking this weekend with a friend who longtime military experience.

And I was, I was asking the straight support moves question.

I'm like,

You guys had 40 years to plan with this.

How is this possible?

He's like, dude, it was the drones.

At the end of the day, we just didn't pay enough attention to the Ukraine and Russia conflict.

We did not realize how much the drone threat was going to radically change the equation.

They really believed in the old days that all they had to do is they could use those planes to take out those small boats, the IRGC.

And that they could shock and awe in the beginning, take out the ballistic missile and anti-ship missile capacity, and they'd probably be good to go.

They'd have that ability.

But the carriers and all the other stuff was never able to get in range because of the drone threat.

And on top of that, you're taking all these strategic damage to the oil assets of all of the Gulf.

The drone threat.

threat has radically shifted warfare in a four to five different, in a four to five year period to the point where these aircraft carriers, they may just be obsolete.

Like a lot of our multi-trillion dollar investments over the years, sometimes you have to give up and be like, okay, we were wrong.

It's over.

Back to the drawing board.

Yeah, well, and that raises another question too, which is there's a reason why we pulled our aircraft carriers back further away from Iran because we couldn't be in range.

So now we're going to bring them closer in for this blockade that creates tremendous risks as well.