Ahead of our game plan: Top US commander in Middle East as Iran war enters Day 5
India Today
As the US–Israel–Iran conflict moved into its fifth day, US Centcom chief Brad Cooper said US and Israeli forces were advancing more rapidly than anticipated, intensifying a broad air and naval offensive across Iran.
As the US-Israel-Iran conflict entered its fifth day, the top American commander overseeing operations in the Middle East said that American and Israeli forces were moving faster than expected, pressing a sweeping air-and-sea campaign across Iranian territory.
Brad Cooper, the head of United States Central Command (Centcom), said US forces were conducting continuous “24/7 strikes into Iran from the seabed to space and cyberspace,” deploying 50,000 troops, more than 200 aircraft and two aircraft carriers, with additional assets en route.
“My overall operational assessment is that we are ahead of our game plan. In simple terms, we’re focused on shooting things that can shoot us,” Cooper said in a video briefing released on Tuesday.
According to Cooper, US strikes have severely weakened Iran’s air-defence network, destroyed hundreds of ballistic missiles, drones and launchers, and sunk 17 naval vessels, effectively neutralising Tehran’s operational presence along key waterways. He said more than 2,000 targets had been hit so far.
Iran, however, has continued retaliatory attacks, in response to the US-Israeli strikes that killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on February 28. Tehran has launched over 500 ballistic missiles and more than 2,000 drones toward Israel and US-linked positions across the Middle East.
In response, Cooper said American forces are now “hunting” Iran’s remaining mobile missile launchers to eliminate its residual launch capability.
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