NY Times: Iran war shows US military 'losing its edge' |
New York Times: Iran war shows US military ‘losing its edge’
The editorial board of The New York Times is suggesting that U.S. military is “losing its edge,” pointing to the war in Iran as proof.
“While President Trump seems eager for a negotiated truce, Iran’s leaders do not. Somehow, the weaker nation is in the stronger negotiating position,” the editorial board wrote on Thursday. “That reality exposes the vulnerabilities in the American way of war. Tactical success has not yielded victory.”
The U.S., the board argued, “has left itself unprepared for modern war.”
The editorial, titled “The U.S. Military Was Losing Its Edge. After Iran, Everyone Knows It,” came just a day after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced a grilling from lawmakers over his characterization of the war in Iran........