Captain Jim Fennell

The integrated air defense, a ballistic missile, cities now, the Iranian Navy ships and subs, and they struck last night, Isfahan, Bashir, Qom, Bandar Abbas.

So there's massive strikes going further inland from that coastal region that we needed to establish so that our forces could get in and out without risk.

So I think we're in the second phase.

And what people need to know is this is not just a naval force.

This is a joint U.S.

military force commanded at Central Command.

And it's now a combined force.

And so what they have is what they call a combined targeting coordination board.

And that represents all the services that are involved, all the nations that are involved, plus the intelligence agencies from CIA, DIA,

NGA, all the, it's an interagency process, even State Department gets involved.

And there are people there that are saying, hey, we need to consider this, we need to consider that.

It goes before the board and people analyze it.

And they say, yes, this is something valid, we want to go after or not.

And then it gets put on the list.

And then there are legions of people that find the target material and intelligence that helps give us precise location of where these assets are.

but it's worked together and it's been going on for, I would say, years, the planning about how if we had, you know, contingency had to go after Iran, CENTCOM's been working on this for decades.

And so what you see is the unfolding of a plan that's being refined to do the levels of damage that will ensure that Iran's military is completely and thoroughly defanged.

And as I said in a communication to you this last week, as Mao said,

The party controls the gun.

And if there's no gun in the party's hand, then who's running everything?