Six weeks after the United States and Israel launched a war against Iran, what was the political object? Not the military means and objectives — those are the hammer, not the nail. The nail is: What condition in the world, what durable change in Iran’s relationship to the United States and its neighbors, were these strikes meant to produce? That question was never answered, because it was never seriously asked. The Trump administration confused the instrument for the purpose and then changed the purpose whenever the instrument produced inconvenient results.As our country’s most senior uniformed military leader, standing beside our The post Tactical Success, Strategic Failure? Washington Walks the Path to Defeat in Iran appeared first on War on the Rocks .