Two tours and a line item
Eighteen months in Anbar Province. Eight months in Helmand. We watched the Kabul airport footage from a living room in Virginia and understood the specific weight of a twenty-year investment collapsing in eleven days.
$18 billion....
Twelve minutes
180 ballistic missiles. October 1, 2024. Shahab-3s and Fattah-1s on trajectories aimed at Nevatim Air Base and Mossad headquarters. The flight time from Iranian launch sites to Israeli targets is twelve minutes. That is not a gesture. That is an attempt....
180 ballistic missiles, twelve minutes of flight time
Roughly 180 Iranian ballistic missiles arced toward Israel on October 1, 2024. Not the telegraphed drone swarm of April, designed to be intercepted and interpreted. Ballistic missiles — fast, aimed at airbases....