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S8 Ep572: 3. Retired Colonel Jeff McCausland critiques the conduct of the 2026 war with Iran, emphasizing the lack of a clear strategy or end state despite thousands of successful target strikes. He highlights a major messaging failure by the administration followi

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John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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3. Retired Colonel Jeff McCauslandcritiques the conduct of the 2026 war with Iran, emphasizing the lack of a clear strategy or end state despite thousands of successful target strikes. He highlights a major messaging failure by the administration following a Tomahawk missile strike on a primary school that reportedly killed 170 people. McCausland warns that the U.S. entered this conflict with minimal international support, having only Israel as a formal ally in the initial stages. (3)

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Today. I'm John Batchler. It's a great pleasure to welcome my good colleague Colonel Jeff McCaus in the United States Army retired and artillery men.

0:52.9

He is also CBS News. He is also

0:55.8

visiting Professor Dickinson College in Pennsylvania and the CEO of Diamond Sixth

1:00.2

Leadership and Strategy to Warfighting. Jeff and I have fought several wars over these last years,

1:05.9

and this one is unique in that it might be a glimpse of the 21st century war.

1:11.1

Drones and missiles and cyber attacks and information warfare

1:16.1

and casualties can come anywhere on the planet,

1:18.6

not just in the combat zone.

1:20.1

Jeff, I begin with the fog of war statement.

1:23.6

We only know what is being reported out of the immediate battle zone.

1:28.2

Right now, prominently on the front page in London, are burning oil tankers.

1:33.5

We know that there are more than 150 lined up in the Gulf, no way out,

1:37.6

with the Straits of Hormuz that are said to be mined under missile threat from not only Iran,

1:44.0

but you'd have to include the Houthis who can fire

1:46.2

any moment from the other side. And we're told this morning the attacks were drones, but

1:52.0

drones on the water. In other words, speedboats without people in them that blew up these tankers.

1:58.4

Your measure right now in day acts of the war, there are claims at the

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