The Half-Century War

ASCF Report, July 21, 2025
The U.S. airstrikes on Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz represent many things—a history-making mission for the Air Force and its B-2 fleet, an impressive display of the U.S. military’s unmatched reach, a restoration of some measure of deterrence, a setback for Iran’s outlaw nuclear program, a blow against Iran’s terrorist tyranny. But they were not the beginning of a war between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran. That’s because the United States and the Islamic Republic have been at war since November of 1979…