Iran Studied the Wrong War Game, America's Triple-Layer Kill Chain Just Proved It - 120 Ships Destroyed, One Strait Still Closed. Until the A-10 Changed the Math at Hormuz.

There is a particular species of institutional error that only becomes visible in hindsight, and only then at considerable cost. It is not the error of building the wrong weapon. It is the error of discarding the right one because it does not fit the threat you expect to fight. The US Air Force spent the better part of a decade trying to retire the A-10 Thunderbolt II, requesting $57M in its fiscal year 2026 budget submission to decommission the remaining 162 aircraft, two years ahead of its own previously stated schedule. Congress blocked the effort, mandating a minimum fleet...