Buck Brief - Combat Pilot Analyzes Trump's Iran Air War and Next Steps
The Buck Sexton Show
Premiere Networks
4.7 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Former Pentagon official and combat pilot Amber Smith breaks down the U.S. air campaign against Iran, the rescue missions that followed, and why a lasting ceasefire and nuclear agreement may be difficult to achieve.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:05.6 | You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. |
| 0:08.9 | Make sure you subscribe to the podcast on the IHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:14.6 | How has the air war against Iran gone so far? |
| 0:18.9 | And what is going to happen next we're joined by our friend |
| 0:22.8 | Amber Smith she is a former senior Pentagon official as well as a former |
| 0:28.1 | Kiowa which is a helicopter for all of you out there Kiowa combat pilot in Afghanistan |
| 0:34.3 | and wrote a great book about her time there overseas in combat. |
| 0:38.4 | Amber, great to see you. |
| 0:39.1 | Been a while. |
| 0:39.4 | How are you doing? |
| 0:40.8 | I'm doing well. |
| 0:41.9 | Great to be on with you. |
| 0:43.1 | So tell me how you feel like this whole thing, the air campaign, has it exceeded? |
| 0:49.4 | I mean, you have some particular from the rotary wing helicopter perspective, but you know you also work in the |
| 0:56.0 | Pentagon what we're capable of. This seemed to be, if someone had told me that we could destroy |
| 1:02.2 | the Iranian Navy, most of its surface to air missile capability, basically its entire Air Force, |
| 1:09.1 | and do so with, I mean, less than a, no casualties in the air |
| 1:14.0 | and only casualties really elsewhere from people being hit on bases. |
| 1:18.8 | I would have said that seems a little bit extreme. |
| 1:20.5 | That's what's happened. |
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