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• First 24 hours of Trump's war on Iran, by the numbers

  01-03-2026 23:21 via defenseone.com
  B-2 bombers, stealth fighter jets, recon aircraft, and other weapons were used to strike more than 1,000 targets in the first day of the U.S. war on Iran, according to fact sheets and other statements by U.S. military units.On Sunday, U.S. Central Command released a list of U.S. weapons and platforms used in the first 24 hours of Operation Epic Fury, which began at 1:15 a.m. Eastern time on Feb. 28. Initial targets included aerospace forces and joint headquarters facilities of the Islamic Revolu
  
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• Why the US attack on Iran is unlikely to produce regime change in Tehran

  01-03-2026 02:53 via defenseone.com
  After the largest buildup of warships and aircraft in the Middle East in decades, American and Israeli military forces launched a massive assault on Iran on Feb. 28, 2026. President Donald Trump has called the attacks “operations” and has urged regime change in Tehran.To better understand what this means for the U.S. and Iran, Alfonso Serrano, a U.S. politics editor at The Conversation, interviewed Donald Heflin, a veteran diplomat who now teaches at Tufts University’s Fletcher
  
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• Iranian drones damage US Navy base in Bahrain; Americans evacuate

  01-03-2026 02:20 via defenseone.com
  Hours after Iranian drones damaged U.S. Navy facilities in Manama, Bahrain, U.S. Navy Central Command told all servicemembers and contractors who live and work in and around the base that the area is no longer safe and they will receive money to stay in a hotel elsewhere. An email obtained by Defense One titled “evacuation of Juffair”—the neighborhood in southern Manama that is home to Naval Support Activity Bahrain—says NAVCENT “has concluded that the Juffair
  
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• Shahed drone meets clone in US war on Iran

  01-03-2026 02:02 via defenseone.com
  Overnight, robot-vs.-robot warfare spread from Europe to the Red Sea. The U.S.-made LUCAS, a low-cost attack drone modeled on the Iranian Shahed-136, made its combat debut in Saturday’s strikes on Iran, and drew a wave of Shahed attacks in return.“CENTCOM's Task Force Scorpion Strike—for the first time in history—is using one-way attack drones in combat during Operation Epic Fury. These low-cost drones, modeled after Iran's Shahed drones, are now delivering American-
  
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• Strikes on Iran will test US cyber strategy abroad, and defenses at home

  01-03-2026 00:14 via defenseone.com
  Coordinated U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian targets are putting renewed focus on how the United States integrates offensive cyber capabilities into the battlespace — and how prepared federal agencies are for retaliation at home.Iran has shown a tendency to respond to overseas threats with cyber means, from defacing websites to spying on U.S. and allied targets. Tracking such actions and alerting the U.S. government and public is a job of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Ag
  
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