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US‑Israel‑Iran, Iran, Middle East

March 30, 2026

Vital U.S. radar aircraft was destroyed by Iranian strike on U.S. base in Saudi Arabia, photos show

Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, a Bronze Star recipient who served for 21 years, disagreed.

“We’re not doing OK at all,” he said in a telephone interview Monday. Davis, a senior fellow and military expert at Defense Priorities, a Washington-based think tank, added that the U.S. was “not militarily prepared for this to be a sustained war.”

“There were too many in the administration that thought this was going to be a quick and easy thing,” he said, adding that the “Iranian side still has plenty of missiles to keep going at a sustained rate.”

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