Captain Jim Fennell

The war itself is going unbelievably well.

It's as good as it can be.

Well, we saw, Steve, thanks for having me on.

We saw bombing, obviously, a massive round of bombing in Tehran that included an oil refinery in Tehran that's gotten a lot of attention.

Oil refineries associated with supplying the IRGC military supplies.

And then there was a counter strike against some places in Bahrain and other places, maybe even Haifa desolidization plant.

So it looks like there's a little bit of a tit for tat there.

What we don't really know is because we're essentially getting the one side of the story from all the attacks that are coming from Iran into the GCC.

So every missile or drone is highlighted.

but whereas what we're actually doing inside iran is getting some attention like the bombing of that refinery in tehran but the actual cumulative effect and the details of where we're striking each place is obviously being withheld uh from the pentagon for operational security reasons so i think getting your what they call a battle damage assessment reporting on the effects on iran

We have to discern from what we see from the behavior.

So as the Pentagon has reported, missile and drone strikes are down significantly, missiles more than 90%, drones over 80%.

And then we are seeing the reports of some specificity.

Steve, I would say that we are entering a second phase.

The first phase, as Admiral Cooper stated, was about being able to kill the Iranian things that could shoot at us.

So this first week, over 3,500, possibly closer to 6,000 attacks from both U.S.

and Israeli forces was about rolling back their air defense capabilities, their missile capabilities that were on the ground and their air defense and their naval forces.

We have successfully, I think, to a large degree, eliminated most of those that are out in the open.

So now we're going into the second phase, which is to really start going after the infrastructure that supported the military, the IRGC.

So the target sets are command and control centers, military communication sites, IRGC joint headquarters, IRGC aerospace force headquarters,