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Top U.S. General Details Opening Days of America's Fight with Iran
(Business Insider) Chris Panella - Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Monday that America's major combat operation against Iran - Operation Epic Fury - aimed to cripple Iran's military and ability to pose a threat. The joint force operation that was coordinated with Israel took months and in some cases years of "deliberate planning and refinement." "Across every domain - land, air, sea, cyber - the U.S. Joint Force delivered synchronized and layered effects designed to disrupt, degrade, deny and destroy Iran's ability to conduct and sustain combat operations." The first moves involved U.S. cyber capabilities, which can include jamming, spoofing, signal interruption, manipulation of digital networks, satellite interference, and more. Their focus was "disrupting and degrading and blinding Iran's ability to see, communicate, and respond." Then more than 100 aircraft, including fighter jets, tankers, early warning and control planes, electronic warfare planes, bombers, and uncrewed aerial systems, were launched from land and sea, from within the region and from the U.S., forming a single wave for a daylight strike. Air Force B-2 bombers, flying from the U.S., dropped "precision penetrating munitions on Iranian underground facilities." Israel separately executed hundreds of aircraft missions against hundreds of targets across Iran. U.S. Navy warships launched Tomahawk cruise missiles at Iranian targets. "This was a massive, overwhelming attack across all domains of warfare, striking more than 1,000 targets in the first 24 hours," Caine said. The aim was to "daze and confuse them." He added that the U.S. integrated air defense network, which includes Patriot and THAAD batteries and Navy destroyers capable of ballistic missile defense, has been intercepting hundreds of missiles targeting U.S. and partner forces.