The Trump Administration's planning for the #IranWar was self-defeating:
"Experts say that countering mines could be a challenge given that the U.S. military decommissioned all its minesweeper vessels in the Middle East last September":
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"Just days before the United States launched a major military operation against Iran, FBI Director Kash Patel fired more than a dozen agents from a counterintelligence unit focused on foreign threats":
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