Tracy Mumford
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3 series
first heard Feb 2025
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From The New York Times, it's The Headlines.
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I'm Tracy Mumford.
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Today's Friday, September 11th.
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Here's what we're covering.
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Over the past six months.
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Vice President J.D.
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Vance has been one of President Trump's key messengers about the war in Iran.
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He has publicly echoed Trump's confident tone about the American military campaign.
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Now, my colleagues in The Times' Washington bureau have learned how, behind the scenes, Vance has gone out of his way to get his own updates about the war directly from U.S.
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military commanders, and how that information has sometimes been vastly different from what the administration presented to the public.
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According to interviews with more than half a dozen current and former administration officials, Vance, who opposed the war from the outset, has taken the unusual step of personally contacting commanders in the field before their views are consolidated by the Pentagon.
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Over the course of the spring and summer, Vance reached out to officers in the Middle East, Europe, and Asia, asking them about everything from battlefield tactics to casualty estimates to how they assessed Iran's resilience.
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He also asked for a detailed accounting of what weapons remained in U.S.
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stockpiles,
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and how any shortages could affect the U.S.'
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's ability to deter China, Russia, and North Korea.
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The commanders gave him a blunt, sobering assessment, saying their stocks of critical munitions, like interceptor missiles, were the lowest they'd ever seen.
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According to people who spoke to Vance, the vice president came away from some of his conversations with deep concerns about the overall strategy in the war.
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The commanders made clear to him that the U.S.
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had limited ability to block Iranian strikes and deal with threats elsewhere in the world, and that the Iranian government was prepared to endure huge amounts of pain to fight for its survival.
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