2. #Iran's reaction has come as no surprise to anyone in the #USNavy.
3. The campaign carries the added strategic benefit of demonstrating to #China that the US has the resolve to use military force to achieve its objectives. Therefore it deters China's ambition to invade #Taiwan.
The arguments feel muddled and unconvincing. The whole piece comes across more like PR damage control.
Refresher: the Afghanistan and second Iraq War were led by competent generals too.
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