... of which I write for decades now:
1. US (hence Israel) have no functioning Air Defense, mostly expensive junk which cannot protect itself, forget protecting something else.
2. There is no a single US officer (top-bottom) who has any grasp of national resolve of cultures formed by the continental warfare. So ...
3. Apart from being unable to properly plan REAL operations--as Israel learned the hard way in the last 48 hours--no Pentagon planner understands the defense of own land, period. As the result of technological backwardness, fairy tales military history and knowing nothing about REAL war--MISCALCULATION.
Iran recovered and responded, Happy Birthday, Mr. President, go lick boots of your cowardly incompetent masters from Tel Aviv.