I wonder what happened to "shock and awe"? CNN used to show live video of US bombs blowing up massive amounts of stuff. Now we just get grainy drone videos that look like AI. My theory is that they ar...
Professor Chinaman discussed this quite a bit. Shock and Awe was really NOT supposed to work (in 2003), all of the military planners said it will not work, but the president's top guys pushed for it, and they tried it on Saddam and it WORKED, incredibly fantastically well...
So they kind of got drunk on it, but the thing is, Iraq is a desert, so anything that's not flat sand is a potential target. And also Saddam thought (for whatever reason) that the US would NOT attack him so he made no preparations.
Iran on the other hand has been planning for an apocalyptic end-times war against the US, for, 40 years. And unlike Iraq, Iran is a mountain fortress. They've been planning to deal with Shock and Awe doctrine, so AFAIK the US has moved away from it.
And as far as why there isn't better video of the bombings they DO do, perhaps the issue is that it has become quite difficult to get video without getting shot down by an infrared targeting MANPAD.
So they kind of got drunk on it, but the thing is, Iraq is a desert, so anything that's not flat sand is a potential target. And also Saddam thought (for whatever reason) that the US would NOT attack him so he made no preparations.
Iran on the other hand has been planning for an apocalyptic end-times war against the US, for, 40 years. And unlike Iraq, Iran is a mountain fortress. They've been planning to deal with Shock and Awe doctrine, so AFAIK the US has moved away from it.
And as far as why there isn't better video of the bombings they DO do, perhaps the issue is that it has become quite difficult to get video without getting shot down by an infrared targeting MANPAD.