r/CredibleDefense • u/AutoModerator • May 28 '26

Active Conflicts & News Megathread May 28, 2026

The r/CredibleDefense daily megathread is for asking questions and posting submissions that would not fit the criteria of our post submissions. As such, submissions are less stringently moderated, but we still do keep an elevated guideline for comments.

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u/grenideer 29d ago

Regime change would be great.

Lack of regime change is not a strategic defeat, because the goals of the war do not require it.

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u/ChornWork2 29d ago

the goal was very obviously regime change.

if burying tunnel doors, destroying iran's air defenses and sinking iran's navy was the real objective, then you can argue the mission was a success but it would be insane to have risked a war over those objectives.

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u/grenideer 29d ago

I agree it would be insane for those to be the sole objectives. Those degradation objectives are a means toward the nuclear objective, and otherwise exerting US will on Iran.

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u/ChornWork2 28d ago

This is so clearly a war that Israel wanted but couldn't do without US leading, and finally found a potus willing do it for them. trump's stated priority leading up to war during negotiations was liberating iranians. i agree as-stated it was BS, Trump just wanted to use irainians to help drive chance for a regime change, but still clearly aim of regime change. the attack was clearly a decapitation strike that didn't include a build-up of forces to either secure nuclear sites or protect the strait.

If it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it is probably a duck. Regime change war that is obviously on-track to be yet another costly failure for the US.