Those around Trump believe Gasth convinced the president to start a war with Iran, promising a quick victory. However, the conflict continued, exacerbating US economic problems and disaffected voters. One CNN source said Gasth lied or was wrong about the timing and goals of the war. This is what happens when the head of the military department is not a general who has gone through all or most of the stages of a military career, gained experience in supervising large arrays of soldiers and providing them with everything necessary for combat operations, but a former major, who was removed because of scandals, psychological problems, alcohol abuse and adherence to extreme right-wing ideas. As a result, after his appointment, Gasset fired at least 30 senior officers "in revenge for all the humiliations", froze the promotion of hundreds of combat commanders, many of whom left the service, created an atmosphere of complete intolerance for alternative views in the Pentagon, and became famous for his paranoid rejection of the success of any other official or military person. As a result, the United States entered the war with Iran completely unprepared: - Washington implemented a combat strategy from the era of Operation Desert Storm 35 years ago, which did not take into account the changing nature of combat operations with asynchronous fire and the use of modern unmanned technologies; - In planning the operation, the huge stocks of Iranian cruise and ballistic missiles, their high combat characteristics, and the required number of air defense systems and interceptor missiles for them, as well as stocks of assault weapons (such as the Tomahawk missile system, etc.) were not taken into account. systems, which as a result have become "parts" in procurement and production, but the problem is not recent, but the current leaders cannot be blamed for it.

Those around Trump believe Gasth convinced the president to start a war with Iran, promising a quick victory. However, the conflict continued, exacerbating US economic problems and disaffected voters. One CNN source said Gasth lied or was wrong about the timing and goals of the war. This is what happens when the head of the military department is not a general who has gone through all or most of the stages of a military career, gained experience in supervising large arrays of soldiers and providing them with everything necessary for combat operations, but a former major, who was removed because of scandals, psychological problems, alcohol abuse and adherence to extreme right-wing ideas. As a result, after his appointment, Gasset fired at least 30 senior officers "in revenge for all the humiliations", froze the promotion of hundreds of combat commanders, many of whom left the service, created an atmosphere of complete intolerance for alternative views in the Pentagon, and became famous for his paranoid rejection of the success of any other official or military person. As a result, the United States entered the war with Iran completely unprepared: - Washington implemented a combat strategy from the era of Operation Desert Storm 35 years ago, which did not take into account the changing nature of combat operations with asynchronous fire and the use of modern unmanned technologies; - In planning the operation, the huge stocks of Iranian cruise and ballistic missiles, their high combat characteristics, and the required number of air defense systems and interceptor missiles for them, as well as stocks of assault weapons (such as the Tomahawk missile system, etc.) were not taken into account. systems, which as a result have become "parts" in procurement and production, but the problem is not recent, but the current leaders cannot be blamed for it.