Dr. Bradley Thayer

Thank you, Steve.

Well, Steve, on that it's difficult to say.

It's a traditional war.

So the air war is going to be fought between the Iranians who want to preserve their assets, because once they emit their radars or once they fire a surface-to-air missile, for example,

There's going to be a response.

So they want to husband their capabilities as they do their ballistic missiles, their drones and UAVs.

They want to keep the fight going, but they don't want to use up all of their capabilities because they want to draw out the fight.

So it's difficult to assert whether, and of course, our choice is to treat them as rapidly as possible, to find them by whatever means and destroy them.

And that's the entire chain, where they're being produced, how they're being transported, how they're being generated, and then how they're being fired.

So we need to keep that in mind.

So what comes out of Hegseth's remarks and Admiral Cooper's remarks, to my mind, are three things.

First,

Hegseth stressed the will is ironclad, right?

One thing that he repeated time and again was that the United States is in this to stay as long as it takes.

Secondly, as he stressed, of course, again repeatedly,

more forces, more capabilities are going to flow to the region.

Iran hasn't seen, just to paraphrase, but Iran hasn't seen all of U.S.

capabilities and allied capabilities.

So again, that's important.

Third, both Hegseth and Cooper