00:00Let's start by talking about what, militarily speaking, has been achieved so far.
00:05President Trump says, quote, we have knocked out all of their boats.
00:09They have some missiles, but not very many.
00:13Does it look and sound to you like the U.S. and Israel do indeed have the upper hand in
00:19this conflict?
00:20Well, thank you for having me, Tom.
00:21Well, first of all, I think it's mixed in some ways.
00:25Iranian military capabilities have certainly been degraded.
00:28Their ballistic missiles have been degraded, their launchers and everything else.
00:33Their command and control has been degraded.
00:37Their navy has also been degraded significantly.
00:43But Iran certainly has a vote.
00:46Iran is still able to fire some ballistic missiles.
00:50They're still able to fire their drones, especially the Shahid drone, which is causing problems for U.S. forces and
00:58Israeli forces as far as trying to stop the Shahid drone.
01:02And then as far as the Iranian Navy being able to put out mines in the Persian Gulf, specifically the
01:11Straits of Hormuz, they still have that capability.
01:14The U.S. has been able to destroy, I think, 16 mine laying boats.
01:20But there are so many ways that the mines can be put out into the water from any kind of
01:27boat can throw them off the sides to their submarines being able to do it.
01:31And we haven't yet seen something that Iran has, which is the submarine or waterborne drones that also can cause
01:46problems.
01:47So I think it's mixed at this point.
01:49This war, if the U.S. is to achieve the objectives, at least that they have stated, will take a
01:56little while.
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