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American systems such as THAAD/Patriot are presented as strategically mismatched because they may spend millions of dollars trying to stop cheap drones and are large, slow, and visible targets.
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Cost asymmetry
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Jiang argues that drone swarms or suicide boats can turn the cost structure against American aircraft carriers, making a cheap attack package threaten a much more expensive platform.
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Jiang says Iran's True Promise strike package cost roughly $10 to $30 million while Israel spent at least $1 billion defending against it, making the exchange an example of asymmetrical warfare.
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Jiang says the war exposes an unsustainable asymmetry in which million-dollar missiles try to destroy drones that cost only tens of thousands of dollars.
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"Right. So, my first point is that the United States military is not designed to fight a 21st century war. Remember that the military..."
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"They're easy to make. They make about $500 a day. Okay? And, estimates are about there's 80,000 right now that the Iranians have. So,..."
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"This missile, guys, costs one million dollars. One million dollars. So, there's this $50,000 drone coming your way and you throw a million dollar..."
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"expensive but they're very powerful now in a semi symmetrical warfare what happened is iran sends its entire navy against this one aircraft carrier..."
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"I'mщat an asymmetrical warfare here people n't Jo and you have to control how much resources you use okay so for example this aircraft..."
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"is that the total package, the strike package, that the Iranians used cost about $10 to $30 million. But how much money did the..."
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The hosts begin by replaying Jiang's earlier prediction that Trump would win, the United States would fight Iran, and America would lose.
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Iran's missile strike is read not as a failed attack, but as a demonstration of asymmetrical strategy: choose the battlefield, satisfy four goals at once, and make the dominant power fight on terms it...
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