Foreign Policy: The Iran War undermined the myth of American special forces.
Foreign Policy wrote:
American special forces, presented as a symbol of the strength and invincibility of this country's military, could not play a decisive role in the Iran war.
Referring to the change of the hero of the famous game "Call of Duty" from a special force to a regular soldier, this publication saw this change as a sign of the decline of the heroic image of the American special forces in the general culture.