Dr. Bradley Thayer

So they do seem to be suppressed, although there's always the possibility, of course, that they're lying in wait and they ambush American bombers or American aircraft or allied aircrafts.

The third front really is the naval war, straight-up Hormuz, as well as more broadly.

And here we have some concern, of course, Steve, as you stressed in the last few days on War Room, that Iran is using a variety of measures to intimidate.

which is to coerce through the threat of attacks, actual attacks and the threat of more attacks to come, naval traffic, civilian traffic in the Gulf and in the Strait.

And then we have the ground front, fourthly.

The ground front would be purportedly led by the Kurds.

potentially with backing from the US intelligence community, from Israel's intelligence community, and potentially other actors as well, to serve as the boots on the ground, to serve as a ground force that would be able to seize and hold territory within Iran.

that might be used as bastions or that might be used to project additional ground attacks against Iran.

And then the fifth and final would be, the fifth front is proxies.

The fact that the war is expanding, and this is shown most clearly in Lebanon,

where you have a proxy war between Hezbollah and Israel, although with Iran's strong support for terrorism, we can see that proxy attacks occur.

For example, the attack in Austin, Texas that we've had, that we might see other attacks and sustained attacks due to the fact that there are Iranian sleeper cells operating in the United States.

So when we think about the war, the kinetic aspect of the war, leaving aside the economic aspect of it, leaving aside the political aspect of it, we see those five fronts going on simultaneously today.

And there's variation in success.

The U.S.

has been very successful in sinking Iran's navy.

and keeping Hormuz open.

We can see that the Fifth Fleet, though, is gonna be tasked with a very great responsibility to ensure that civilian traffic is able to transit the strait.

The missile campaign, again, as a result of Iranian launches,

and Israeli-U.S.