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U.S. Central Command asks for ideas on beating Iran [1]

['Rob Beschizza']

Date: 2026-08-04  

With president Donald Trump's war with Iran quagmired (media lost count weeks ago of the number of times we've won or that a deal is near; he's called off "major" new strikes 7 times in as many weeks by one count), military brass are out of ideas for making progress. But the troops might have some creative and unconventional ones, let's ask them.

"We are looking for new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran," CNN reports an intelligence officer writing to military analysts.

"U.S. Central Command has a long history of thinking and working in innovative ways," Capt. Timothy Hawkins, a spokesperson for CENTCOM, said in a statement. "Admiral Cooper, in particular, reaches out to members of our great team, regardless of rank, to achieve the highest levels of operational performance possible." … Trump has been weighing intensifying the military campaign, potentially by relaunching intense strikes on Iran's remaining nuclear facilities, which he claimed had been "obliterated" in strikes last summer. Two sources familiar with the planning say the military has been actively preparing to launch strikes on Pickaxe Mountain and other Iranian sites believed to contain either nuclear material or equipment. But even with America's most powerful conventional weapons, those sources say, missiles and bombs alone are unlikely to achieve much because the facilities are buried deeply underground.

If only Trump had a team as creative and unconventional as Robert McNamara, William Westmoreland, and Maxwell Taylor. They knew how to get it done!

"I think we just want to win," Trump said during a Cabinet meeting Friday when asked about concluding the war.

Previously:

• Grocery prices soar as Iran war drags on

• Trump's war in Iran cancels summer vacation

• Seven Stories Press compiles 'Hands Off Iran' reading list

• At $4 a gallon again, even Republicans souring on Iran war

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