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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Robert Pape is a UChicago professor and one of the leading experts on air power. He has advised every White House since 2001 (43 W) to 2024 (46 Biden), including Trump 45.

He paints a terrible picture of the war now and the consequences into the future.

Can anyone point to a single academic expert that says the Iran invasion is a good thing?

The Iran War Expert: I Simulated The Iran War for 20 Years. Here’s What Happens Next
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcXfcXJvMXg[/youtube]

Trump IS TRAPPED In Iran Escalation Nightmare
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hCKv3HbTjA[/youtube][/quote]

There are a whole bunch of experts saying the Iranians have not used their best missiles and drones. They are still using old and outdated missiles to deplete the air defenses. The next stage of the war will be a lot more destructive in Israel, the gulf states and the US.

Though they have been saying it on long time. 
https://youtu.be/pJRmkd3H4DY?si=8h-CZBBj3k8gVrOZ

Air defenses of Israel and US has collapsed
https://www.youtube.com/live/nMjMz8yL_kk?si=5BFBhRX_wkaYX70R[/quote]

How real and current are these analyses?  There is very little info available on what Iranian targets have been hit, but there are numerous sources citing that the numbers of ballistic missile and drone launches by Iran have shrunk dramatically, and that Iran's attacks are already less than 10% of what they were at the beginning of the war.  That suggests a significant reduction in Iran's capabilities, whether many stockpiles and launch sites destroyed, command and control significantly degraded and so on.  While "experts" are saying one thing about Iran's attack capabilities, the observed evidence seems to be the opposite.

We also don't know the full extent of what Israeli and other targets they did or didn't hit.  Israel doesn't seem to be admitting much and if anything are expanding and broadening their strikes and attacks, whether targets in Lebanon or even hitting Basij street checkpoints in downtown Tehran [/quote]

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Alastair Crooke (born 1949) is a former British diplomat and senior MI6 intelligence officer who founded the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum, which advocates for engaging with political Islam. With decades of experience in the Middle East, he previously advised EU Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana and facilitated ceasefires during the2000s

Chris Hedges won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting (or Breaking News Reporting in some contexts) as part of a New York Times team covering global terrorism. He contributed to the paper's coverage of al-Qaeda, utilizing his extensive experience as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East and Balkans

Theodore Postol is Professor of Science, Technology and National Security Policy in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. He did his undergraduate work in physics and his graduate work in nuclear engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Postol joined the staff of Argonne National Laboratory, where he studied the microscopic dynamics and structure of liquids and disordered solids using neutron, x-ray and light scattering, along with computer molecular dynamics techniques. Subsequently he went to the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment to study methods of basing the MX Missile, and later worked as a scientific adviser to the Chief of Naval Operations. After leaving the Pentagon, Dr. Postol helped to build a program at Stanford University to train mid-career scientists to study developments in weapons technology of relevance to defense and arms control policy. In 1990 Dr. Postol was awarded the Leo Szilard Prize from the American Physical Society. In 1995 he received the Hilliard Roderick Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 2001 he received the Norbert Wiener Award from Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility for uncovering numerous and important false claims about missile defenses
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