Operation Midnight Hammer

Operation Midnight Hammer

Pentagon Hubris On Full Display

Apparently, we’re living in a timeline where a Tom Cruise movie spoiled a major U.S. military strike, but no one seems to think that’s weird. Just days after reports confirmed that U.S. B-2 bombers carried out a stealth attack on Iranian nuclear sites using bunker-busting munitions, Iran and Russia are now claiming that the sites weren’t even destroyed.

While these claims remain unverified at this time, it wouldn’t exactly be shocking if they were true. When you announce your game plan in a blockbuster film and let the Pentagon co-write the script, you shouldn’t be surprised when your opponent figures out how to read the plot.

Midnight Hammer was meant to cripple Iran’s uranium enrichment program. But if Iranian and Russian statements are accurate, then all that effort, all those millions spent on stealth bombers and munitions, might’ve hit little more than reinforced concrete and empty tunnels. According to those same reports, Iran had long since relocated its uranium stockpile and reinforced the above-ground structures after it became painfully obvious what kind of scenario the U.S. was training for.