Trump Faces the Limits of U.S. Firepower and the Lessons of Past Wars
Greg Jaffe and Eric Schmitt cover the U.S. military.
Saturday, July 18, 2026
The enemy might have been brain-dead, but the body kept functioning as it had been trained to do for the last decade,” General Hinote said. Iranian troops fired back at U.S. bases in the Middle East, struck America’s Gulf Arab allies and effectively closed the strait. Now the Trump administration is in a spot where it is sitting across the negotiating table from a discombobulated, embittered and dug-in enemy that is either not willing or not capable of making lasting concessions.
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