When War Planning Fails: The Iran School Strike
In Episode 37, Mike and Neal tackle one of the darkest and most consequential questions to come out of the Iran strikes: who killed 175 schoolgirls at a girls’ elementary school near the Strait of Hormuz? Early official narratives tried to muddy the waters, but the evidence points to a grim possibility—a U.S.-made Tomahawk cruise missile hit the school three times. So how does something like that happen?
Drawing on their firsthand military experience, Mike and Neal break down how a strike like this is actually planned. From the targeting cycle and collateral damage assessments, to prebuilt…
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