SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: We now have our third story today about the Pentagon raising doubts about a significant military operation inside Iran.

https://x.com/yashar/status/2026027259686187149

BREAKING We now have our third story today about the Pentagon raising doubts about a significant military operation inside Iran. This time from the Washington Post: “As the Trump administration weighs an attack on Iran, the Pentagon’s top general has cautioned President Donald Trump and other officials that shortfalls in critical munitions and a lack of support from allies will add significant risk to the operation and to U.S. personnel. Taking out Iran’s missile program would require hitting hundreds of targets across a country more than three times the size of Iraq. If the objective is to overthrow Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as Trump has mused publicly, the target set would expand dramatically to thousands of sites, including command-and-control nodes, security services, and key buildings tied to Khamenei. Such a campaign could extend for weeks or months, require much more munitions and expose U.S. forces to more intense retaliation, the former defense official said. Two munitions critical to the defense of U.S. military personnel against Iranian-launched ballistic missiles — Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD interceptors, and Patriot missile systems — have been extensively used in recent military operations in the Middle East. Patriot missiles also remain one of the most in-demand items by Ukraine as it defends against Russian missile attacks.  But the U.S. produces only several hundred of both defenses each year — far less than would be needed. Because of their complexity and production constraints, it can take two years or more to produce each replacement missile. Full Story: wapo.st/3OsqSuB

7:11 AM · Feb 24, 2026