WarTalk: Iran War with Jack Shanahan

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The “love tap” White House readout. A failed convoy operation. KSA pulling overflight rights. Iran with 70% of its missile force still intact. And one F-15E shoot-down from absolute disaster. Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, the founding director of the JAIC, joins the WarTalk crew (Bryan Clark, Eric Robinson, , ) for a postmortem on a weird week in the strait.We discuss…Why Project Freedom failed Whether this war is “bereft of strategic thought” Steelmanning Midnight Hammer and the cul-de-sac the administration walked into70% of Iran’s missile force still standing, Saudi economic exposure, and Iran hitting AWS data centersF-15E losses, electronic warfare, and the lessons we’re not absorbing for the PacificWhy we’re not seeing offensive cyber against Iran and what that tells usListen now on your favorite podcast app.It Was a Love TapJordan Schneider: This has been the murkiest week we’ve had in a while, right?Bryan Clark: Absolutely. The White House has announced that the war is over as well as continuing in a new form. It was a “love tap,” it was a trifle. It’s a whole smorgasbord of military operations.Justin: These shootings do not equate to a ceasefire being broken.Bryan Clark: Exactly. Like if you went to tea at the Langham in London. So the latest — the leverage Iran has right now is the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The US saw an opportunity to say, well, if we can erode that leverage, maybe we get a better position in negotiations. The gambit was an escort operation on the cheap.Back in the 80s, in the Tanker War, the US Navy had to escort shipping throu…