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War never unfolds the way anyone expects.

Even the most powerful military on Earth can enter a conflict with the most careful planning, tons of resources, and a clear strategy, only to find that the battlefield starts changing fast and furious style. New weapons appear, and unexpected strikes land. And all of a sudden the perfect assumptions experts made at the beginning of a war start looking a lot less certain.

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That’s part of what’s happening right now in the growing confrontation with Iran.

New reports indicate Iranian strikes over the weekend damaged parts of the U.S. military’s communications and radar infrastructure across several sites in the Middle East. Contrary to online rumors, the systems were not destroyed, but the damage is causing nerves about how deep this conflict could get.

Grok Conversation:

Iran successfully struck and damaged the radar (confirmed by satellite images and Qatari acknowledgments), representing a major blow to US missile early warning in the Gulf, but “destroyed” appears overstated based on available evidence—it’s more accurately described as significantly damaged or partially disabled. The conflict is fast-moving, so further assessments could emerge.

Some Americans hoped the confrontation with Iran would be over fast. But anyone who’s followed Iran’s military buildup knows the country has spent years stockpiling weapons, drones, and missile systems specifically designed for a long, grinding regional fight. After all, Obama sent them “pallets” of cash.

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But it’s also true that the United States has the most powerful military force on the planet. And as it stands now, most military analysts agree that if the conflict continues to escalate, the question won’t be “if” Iran’s military falls, but when.

Still, wars are unpredictable.

And proxy support from China could change the timeline by a lot. Look what Biden’s money and equipment did to drag out the Ukraine war.

But as it stands now, Iran appears to have landed some meaningful hits on U.S. communications infrastructure and radar operations in the Middle East. Again, partially disabled, not wiped out.

And in a war zone, that distinction matters.

The Times analyzed satellite imagery, and their reporting indicates that multiple facilities experienced damage from Iranian strikes over the weekend.

New York Times:

Iranian strikes conducted over the weekend and on Monday damaged structures that are part of or near communication and radar systems on at least seven U.S. military sites across the Middle East, according to a New York Times analysis of satellite imagery and verified videos.

Visuals show damage on or close to mechanisms used to track incoming ballistic missiles, satellite dishes and radomes, which are weatherproof covers that protect sensitive equipment used by forces to communicate over long distances.

So, Iran wasn’t just firing missiles willy-nilly. There was a method to their madness. The strikes targeted communications and early warning systems.

NYT:

U.S. military communication infrastructure is highly classified, making it difficult to determine which exact systems may have been affected. But the targeted locations appear to indicate Iran was aiming to disrupt the U.S. military’s ability to communicate and coordinate.

Disrupting communication and coordination can slow response times, complicate logistics, and create some temporary blind spots during military operations.

NYT:

Video verified by The Times showed that an Iranian one-way attack drone struck a radome on Saturday in the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet headquarters in Manama, Bahrain. The base is the United States’ primary hub for coordinating naval operations in the Middle East.

Satellite imagery taken of the headquarters the following day showed that at least one additional radome was destroyed.

The Fifth Fleet headquarters is one of the most important U.S. naval coordination hubs in the Middle East, which explains why Iran would see that as a high-value target.

NYT:

Satellite imagery of Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar taken on Sunday afternoon showed that a tent surrounded by satellite dishes had been destroyed and some of the dishes most likely damaged.

Al Udeid is the U.S. military’s largest base in the Middle East, accommodating thousands of troops across an area nearly six miles wide, and serves as the regional headquarters for the United States Central Command.

Again, this shows the strikes were meant to create communication disruptions, not large-scale destruction.

NYT:

Satellite imagery of Camp Arifjan in Kuwait shows that by Sunday morning at least three radomes had been damaged or destroyed.

Fifty miles northeast, at the Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait, at least six buildings or structures adjacent to satellite communications infrastructure were damaged or destroyed.

Multiple sites being hit at the same time means Iran was targeting communication across several countries all at once.

NYT:

Low-resolution satellite imagery captured of a military installation just outside Al Ruwais in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday shows several structures were damaged.

A radar system known as AN/TPY-2, which is used to detect and track ballistic missiles and is crucial to coordinating missile interception, appears to have been stationed next to one of the buildings that was hit.

If those radar systems were affected, even for a short time, it could complicate missile detection and response timelines.

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You can read the entire NYT piece here.

While the damage does raise alarm bells for risks and uncertainties, that’s normal with any conflict, and the U.S. military leadership says the bigger campaign against Iran is moving forward with tremendous momentum.

In fact, the U.S. military has already begun turning some of Iran’s own technology back against them.

Eric Daugherty:

🚨 BREAKING: CENTCOM Commander just revealed that the US military is for the first time in history using originally *IRANIAN*-designed one-way attack drones against Iran

Flipped it RIGHT BACK at them! 🔥

“These drones were originally an Iranian design. We took them back to America, made them better, and fired them RIGHT BACK at Iran.”

“I just could not be prouder of our men and women in uniform, leveraging innovation to create dilemmas for the enemy.”

“There is no adversary too determined, no mission too difficult for the great soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, guardians, and Coast Guardsmen that make up the most powerful military the world has ever seen.”

Bad*ss. The most powerful military ever.

Military commanders say these kinds of battlefield moves are already changing the game.

At the same time, the scale of the U.S. campaign is so much bigger than many Americans may realize.

Eric Daugherty:

BREAKING: US CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper announces 50,000 TROOPS, 200 fighters, 2 aircraft carriers and bombers are currently participating in the military campaign against Iran

He says Iran is NOTICEABLY becoming weaker!

– Nearly 2,000 THOUSAND Iranian targets struck
– Iranian air defense is being decimated
– B-2 and B-1 bombers are executing uncontested surgical strikes against missile facilities DEEP inside Iran
– Iranian Navy is being SUNK en masse, 17 ships sunk

“And MORE capability is on the way.”

HUGE victory coming. 🇺🇸

“Having said this, we are seeing Iran’s ability to hit us and our partners is declining, while our combat power, on the other hand, is building.”

“And my overall operational assessment is that we are ahead of our game plan. Along the way, every single branch of our military is achieving unprecedented success.”

According to CENTCOM’s, Iranian offensive capabilities are already degrading while U.S. combat power continues building in the region.

Vice President Vance also hinted this week that the public may not yet be seeing the full extent of America’s capabilities.

Eric Daugherty:

JUST IN: VP JD Vance confirms there’s A LOT Iran doesn’t even know about when it comes to what the US military is capable of

President Trump said even MORE devastating strikes are coming 🔥

“I know this stuff, I won’t reveal classified information here. But POTUS KNOWS what we’re able to do, we have MUCH greater capacity to inflict damage on Iran’s nuclear program and other missiles.”

“The US has a lot of optionality here…the president wants to make it clear that he is NOT gonna rest until he accomplishes ensuring Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon.”

TIME TO UNLEASH!

S

In other words, these damage reports may only represent a small slice of what’s happening behind the scenes.

It’s best to keep in mind that early war reporting almost always produces mixed signals.

The strikes against U.S. communication infrastructure show that Iran still has teeth and the ability to land targeted hits. That reality shouldn’t surprise anybody. But it’s a reminder that wars like this rarely wrap up as quickly.

At the same time, the scale of U.S. military power is immense. If current assessments from CENTCOM hold true, Iran’s offensive capabilities are already being degraded.

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But expect more back-and-forth moves to come.

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