Wrong place, Wrong forces, Wrong scale!
The mission of the special forces sent to Iran over the weekend was NOT to extract pilots. Their job was to locate and extract Uranium and they failed.
This explains why Trump was so angry on Sunday while announcing the "successful" recovery of "one" pilot.
It also explains why generals who opposed the plan as suicidal were suddenly "retired" last week.
So what really happened?
A significant "camp" was improvised 37 km South of Isphahan, the city where the Isphahan Nuclear technology Center is located. (Far from the South-Western Coast where the F15 pilots allegedly ejected and were hiding on top of "high" mountains.)
From this camp, a significant special force was dispatched to the Nuclear Center and failed to recover the material.
In the firefight that ensued, the Americans were obliged to retreat, leaving behind large C130 transport aircrafts (mobilized to carry heavy loads, not two pilots) and four specialized helicopters which were destroyed either during or after the operation.
This was a heil mary operation. A last ditch effort to recover the Iranian enriched Uranium and for the trump Administration to claim "victory" while avoiding further heavy involvement
This was also the main reason why the large "amphibious" forces were dispatched all the way from Japan as decoy and support.
The mission failed. Now Trump is back to square one. The only path forward left is either bombing Iran until they give up, which they won't (Nobody has ever done so in history!) or "boots on the ground" to re-open the Hormuz Straight which as we discussed earlier is practically and geographically impossible.
We have reached a strategic impasse!
PS: The news is now in the open. "Obviously" this was not a pilot extraction operation but a full fledged attack on Iran nuclear stockpile which failed.
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