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  • By contrast, Hegseth has been stressing lethality and a warrior ethos instead of learning and reflection, to the point of blocking U.S. military personnel from taking courses at the most elite American universities.

    Its a bit to early for these negatives. That said it is an open secret that not many people are interested in joining the army and that they having been losing institutional knowledge. Part of the reason they also had stop loss back in the early 2010s.

    I honestly think there is a real chance Iran pulls out a win here. They are off to a bad start, but the US has no real plan to shape the victory.

    With the lack of rally around the flag effect at home and the trashing of the economy support could collapse rather quickly (and yet not fast enough). I don’t think the Iran government is popular due to being a theocracy, but they might actually get a rally around the flag effect.