Roughly two weeks into this with a foe that has many advantages. Their navy is gone. Their Air Force is missing in action. Targets have been struck ahead of the Pentagon’s initial schedule. This isn’t a Nintendo shoot em up war game that lasts an hour, so it’ll never be as fast as the attention span of many pprune readers.
But they were never their primary weapons, drones are.
And, as with Ukraine, this is showing that the future of warfare is drone warfare, both offensive and defensive, on the battlefield. And Iran appears to have a very large supply of drones. A urgent question being do they have the buried factories to keep producing them or is it a finite supply?
Threr has been the suggestion that one option for the USA is to seize all the Iranian islands in the Gulf, including Kharg and
Qeshm as part of a shield and to stop their oil exports Pending a final deal when they recommence under US control as with Venezuela). The question being do they have the C-UAS to hold them without heavy casualties from sustained Iranian drone attacks?
Ukraine might have the answer to that.