Dr. Bradley Thayer

uh independently of course stress that we have the means right that we have the offensive and defensive capabilities to sustain uh the fight so um that's a very important point to keep in mind but steve if we take a step back i i think when we think through the war as attritional we need to understand that that attrition is taking place really in five fronts

First front is going to be the missile war, if you will.

That's the ballistic missiles, the cruise missiles, the UAVs and the drones.

The second front is going to be the air war, as Brandon was describing.

A third front is the naval war, now largely fought in the Gulf.

A fourth front is the ground war, which is heating up.

The Kurds, obviously, U.S.

special forces, Israeli special forces, perhaps the Azeris will send in a force as well in time.

The fifth front of the war is the proxy war, right, being fought in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah and perhaps broadening out elsewhere in the world.

So that attritional dynamic is taking place in each of those areas.

And we need to understand that attritional wars are going to be like two heavyweight boxers pounding on one another.

Uh, right.

It's, uh, uh, like Muhammad Ali and, and, um, uh, uh, you know, uh, pounding against one of his heavyweight.

But that's my point.

Right.

So that's the key issue, Steve.

Are we winning that attritional war?

in some areas.

Obviously in the Navy we are.

Are we winning in the missiles, for example, the drones, the UAVs, or are they husbanding their capabilities for a longer fight, sending a few every day, right?