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Missile Factories Leveled, Commanders Targeted as Iran’s Capabilities Collapse · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: See this is not two thousand and three. This is
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  Speaker 1: not endless nation building under those types of quagmuiers we
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  Speaker 1: saw under Bush or Obama. It's not even close. Our
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  Speaker 1: generation of soldier will not let that happen again. And
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  Speaker 1: nordst this present.
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  Speaker 3: Good Wednesday morning. Nice to have you with us on
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  Speaker 3: the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got one big
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  Speaker 3: story for you. It is day eleven of Operation Epic Fury.
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  Speaker 3: forty seven morning update and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: It is day eleven of Operation Epic Fury. The United
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  Speaker 3: States and its allies are continuing to deliver overwhelming blows
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  Speaker 3: to the Iranian regime's military infrastructure, and by nearly every measure,
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  Speaker 3: the coalition is gaining the upper hand in a major way.
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  Speaker 3: As President Donald Trump and the White House continue to
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  Speaker 3: go all out in our attacks on the Iyatola in
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  Speaker 3: the infrastructure there. This operation, as you know, began on
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  Speaker 3: February the twenty eighth, when the United States and Israel
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  Speaker 3: launched coordinated strikes designed to dismantle Iran's missile capabilities, cripple
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  Speaker 3: its military leadership, and eliminate the regime's ability to threaten
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  Speaker 3: American forces or develop or deliver a nuclear weapon. That
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  Speaker 3: is something that the President has laid out from day one,
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  Speaker 3: and the results so far have been staggering. According to
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  Speaker 3: Pentagon officials, more than five thousand Iranian military targets have
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  Speaker 3: now been struck since the campaign began. These strikes have
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  Speaker 3: focused on missile launchers, command centers, air defenses, drone factories,
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  Speaker 3: and key revolutionary guard facilities. In just the first few
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  Speaker 3: days alone, you may remember, the White House talked about
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  Speaker 3: the US forces hit nearly two thousand pre planned targets,
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  Speaker 3: deploying thousands of precision guid ammunitions from fighters, bombers, naval forces,
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  Speaker 3: and long range missiles as well. Among the biggest accomplishments
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  Speaker 3: over the past several days are showing big victories. Iran's
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  Speaker 3: missile capabilities have been heavily degraded. Hundreds of ballistic missiles,
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  Speaker 3: launchers and drone systems have been completely destroyed, dramatically reducing
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  Speaker 3: Iran's ability to strike US bases and allies across the region,
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  Speaker 3: which they did early on. The second big thing that's
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  Speaker 3: happened over the last couple of days is this. The
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  Speaker 3: Iranian Navy has taken a devastating blow. Dozens of warships
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  Speaker 3: as well as naval vessels have been destroyed or completely sunk,
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  Speaker 3: including mine laying ships that threatened shipping lanes in the
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  Speaker 3: Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. The third big
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  Speaker 3: thing that's happened over the last couple of days is this.
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  Speaker 3: Coalition forces have begun targeting Iran's military production pipeline, including
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  Speaker 3: factories that manufacture drones and missile components. Strategic bombers have
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  Speaker 3: dropped bunker busting bombs on hardened missiles facilities deep inside
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  Speaker 3: of Iran. The big other thing that has happened is this.
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  Speaker 3: The campaign has also struck key leadership as well as
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  Speaker 3: command structures tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including
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  Speaker 3: underground facilities linked to missile development and could force operations
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  Speaker 3: as well. What's the most telling is this US officials
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  Speaker 3: are now saying that Iran's retaliatory attacks are already slowing
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  Speaker 3: down significantly. The number of missiles lawns dropped significantly in
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  Speaker 3: recent days because their capabilities have been destroyed. The Defense
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  Speaker 3: Secretary Pete had said said the mission remains laser focused,
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  Speaker 3: and that the United States is winning with overwhelming and
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  Speaker 3: unrelenting force as American intelligence and targeting capabilities improve with
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  Speaker 3: every day of this campaign. Here is more of what
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  Speaker 3: Pete had to say to the world about exactly what's
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  Speaker 3: happening right now.
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  Speaker 1: You see, this is not two thousand and three. This
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  Speaker 1: is not endless nation building under those types of quagmuires
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  Speaker 1: we saw under Bush or Obama. It's not even close.
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  Speaker 1: Our generation of soldier will not let that happen again,
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  Speaker 1: and nor will this president, who very clearly ran again
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  Speaker 1: against those kinds of never ending, nebulously scoped missions. Those
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  Speaker 1: days are dead. Instead, we're winning decisively with brutal efficiency,
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  Speaker 1: total air dominance, and an unbreakable will to accomplish the
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  Speaker 1: President's objectives on our timeline. We stay locked on the
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  Speaker 1: target because here at the Department of War that's our job.
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  Speaker 3: The Secretary of War wasn't done there, also saying this.
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  Speaker 1: On day ten of Operation Epic Fury. We are winning
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  Speaker 1: with an overwhelming and unrelenting focus on our objectives, which
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  Speaker 1: are the same as the day I gave my first
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  Speaker 1: briefing here on Operation Epic Fury. They're straightforward, and we
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  Speaker 1: are executing them with ruthless precision. One destroy their missile stockpiles,
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  Speaker 1: their missile launchers and their defense industrial base missile and
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  Speaker 1: their ability to make them. Two destroy their navy, and
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  Speaker 1: three permanently deny Iran nuclear weapons forever. It's a laser focused,
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  Speaker 1: maximum authority mission delivered with overwhelming and unrelenting precision, no hesitation,
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  Speaker 1: no half measures.
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  Speaker 3: Now, the Secretary of War also made it clear what
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  Speaker 3: the present's mission is and what he is saying right
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  Speaker 3: now about what we are doing.
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  Speaker 1: But the President has made it clear to those concerns
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  Speaker 1: that we're not getting pulled in any direction. We're leading.
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  Speaker 1: The President is leading. He's determining where we want to go,
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  Speaker 1: what the outcome will be, what the end state is,
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  Speaker 1: with a very keen eye. And I understand those concerns
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  Speaker 1: because I've heard from a lot of people who went
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  Speaker 1: through I went through twenty years of those wars, myself,
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  Speaker 1: worried about getting dragged in, worried about Mission creep, worried
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  Speaker 1: about nation building or democracy expansion. Never the perspective the
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  Speaker 1: President has pursued on this. Just because previous presidents and
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  Speaker 1: previous secretaries have decided to just pour more resources and
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  Speaker 1: more people in toward some unguided end state, doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: that's the way the world needs to look today. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: the American people voted for a different approach. But the
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  Speaker 1: President also stated from the beginning, zaran can have a
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  Speaker 1: nuclear weapon. And it's one thing to say it. It's
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  Speaker 1: easy to say. Anybody can say that. I mean, Barack
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  Speaker 1: Obama said that. But to do something about it takes
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  Speaker 1: courage and resolve. But in that courage and in that resolve,
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  Speaker 1: you can also be very scoped in what you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to execute to ensure that the sacrifice of Americans, American treasure,
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  Speaker 1: American lives, all of those properly meet the objective that
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to accomplish. And certainly, as someone I talked
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  Speaker 1: out front about what the reignings have done to our generation,
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  Speaker 1: yes we're clear eyed about it, but my job is
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  Speaker 1: to keep it scoped given the director of the President.
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  Speaker 2: To the mission.
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  Speaker 3: This is exactly why the President of United States of
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  Speaker 3: America picked that the Secretary of Order, Pete head Sets
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  Speaker 3: for this job. He has been in that never ending
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  Speaker 3: war and he wants to make sure that no one
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  Speaker 3: else has to go through that because he witnessed it firsthand.
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  Speaker 3: So as we move into day eleventh, the strategic picture
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  Speaker 3: is becoming even clear. Iran's missile arsenal is shrinking, its
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  Speaker 3: naval power is collapsing, Its military production facilities are being dismantled,
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  Speaker 3: and coalition forces are maintaining air and seed dominance across
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  Speaker 3: the region. To put it plainly, Operation Epic Fury, and
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  Speaker 3: the mastermind of it, President Donald J. Trump. He has
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  Speaker 3: made it clear this is becoming one of the most
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  Speaker 3: intense and consequential US military campaigns in the Middle East
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  Speaker 3: in decades, and officials say the next phase will focus
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  Speaker 3: on permanently destroying iran It's missile production network so the
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  Speaker 3: regime can never rebuild its offensive capabilities. Again, this is
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  Speaker 3: exactly what the President is focused on right now, and
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  Speaker 3: he's also doing it for another reason, to make sure
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  Speaker 3: that we don't have to worry about a nuclear ran
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  Speaker 3: coming after us, our Americans around the world.
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