Iran war--the death toll and damage toll mounts--copied and pasted from LinkedIn

Lewis M. SimonsLewis M. Simons • 1st1st Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist | Author of “To Tell The Truth: My Life as a Foreign Correspondent”; “Worth Dying For”; “The Next Front”Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist | Author of “To Tell The Truth: My Life as a Foreign Correspondent”; “Worth Dying For”; “The Next Front” 46m • 46 minutes ago • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn

The U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran and wide-scale Iranian reprisals expanded Monday as the United States pledged to send more troops to the region. The U.S. military expects to endure additional casualties in its operation, Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine said in a rare on-camera news briefing, adding that accomplishing objectives will take “some time” and, “in some cases, will be difficult and gritty work.” The briefing, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, came after U.S. Central Command reported that a fourth U.S. service member had died of injuries suffered in Iran’s initial retaliatory salvos over the weekend. Earlier Monday, Centcom said that three U.S. fighter jets were mistakenly shot down overnight by Kuwaiti amid active combat but that all six crew members safely ejected. As the war entered its third day, Iran continued its attacks on several Persian Gulf states. Lebanon’s Hezbollah responded to the killing of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with rocket and drone attacks on Israel, prompting Israeli strikes in the suburbs of Beirut and other strongholds of the Iran-allied group.

— The Washington Post, Mar. 2

THE FOG OF WAR...AND OF WAR BRIEFINGS.