Now for analysis of all this, we turn to retired Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster.

He's a Hoover Institution Senior Fellow.

He served as National Security Advisor during the First Trump administration, and he's got a new bookout.

At war with ourselves, my tour of duty in the Trump White House.

General McMaster, what's your initial assessment of this operation?

Well, John, it was extraordinarily successful.

It was, of course, put together for a limited purpose, which is kind of the definition of a raid,

which is a military operation with limited purpose, short duration, and planned withdrawal.

And those three sites were struck successfully without, as the chairman said today,

us not even be able to identify one shot against us. It indicates, you know, an extremely high

degree of training and professionalism across all of our services to be able to do something like

this, you know, halfway around the world. As you heard Secretary Rubio said, there's no plans for anything more, but the Iranians get

a vote in this too.

What range of possible retaliation or response do you expect?

Well, John, Nick, covered some of those, but we know because they've done all of this to us

in the past, right? We know they have a worldwide terrorist network that they could activate.

Remember in 92 and 94 in the attacks in Argentina, for example, assassinations around the world,

including in Europe, assassination attempts in the United States.

So it could activate that terrorist network.

They could try to strike U.S. bases, U.S. personnel.

I think they would really pay an extremely high price if they do that.

They may try to do it again, of course, through their proxies, the Hustas Chhabi militias, for example, in Iraq, or maybe the Houthis could launch missiles, maybe at U.S. locations or something like that.

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