Questioning the Narrative: The Unsettling Pattern of Omissions in the War with Iran Recent reports from The Atlantic and CBS News highlighting potential preventable deaths of US service members in Iran should not be surprising to anyone familiar with the pattern of omissions and downplaying of critical details that has characterized the Trump administration's handling of this war.
The contrast between what was said by military officials at the time and what service members and intelligence agencies were warning about beforehand is striking.
In the case of the Iranian drone strike in Kuwait, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed that the attack was an isolated incident, labeling it a "squirter" that managed to evade US defenses.