Iran was the most successful failure in US airpower history
Nestled inside the four months since the United States launched attacks on Iran was six weeks of the most intensive air campaign since the “shock and awe” opening of the Iraq invasion. Yet the deal it produced, while still in final negotiations, seems to be a draw at best and, in many ways, favors Iran. Threatening to resume the bombing, as President Donald Trump has done several times, misunderstands why. The US was engaged in two air wars simultaneously — one of destruction, and one of disruption. It lost the one that mattered most. The first — the air war
