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Iran is fighting a different kind of war, one less focused on military tactics than economics.
Smoke rises from the site of a strike in Tehran, Iran on April 1, 2026. | AFP via Getty Images
The Pentagon is running out of strategically important targets to hit in Iran, even as President Donald Trump insists the U.S. will keep pummeling Tehran for up to three weeks.
The new timeline — which Trump announced Wednesday in an address to the nation — leaves few options for conducting the kind of air strikes necessary to eliminate the hidden ballistic missile stockpiles he seeks to destroy, according to two current defense officials and a former Trump administration official. The challenges are heightened by Iran’s stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz and the reality that the regime is fighting a different kind of war, less one of tactics than economics.
