Even neo-con writer Max Boot, the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, is worried about the consequences of attacking Iran. “The military operation that Trump has threatened against Iran is potentially much larger and lengthier—and thus much riskier,” than the kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela in January, Boot wrote in a commentary published by the CFR on Feb. 24, following the raft of reports that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine is concerned about the risks of strikes on Iran. Boot notes that “all of these news stories state that Caine has not expressed either support or opposition to the strikes; he is merely raising concerns about how a military campaign would unfold, as he is legally obligated to do in his role as the President’s senior military adviser.”
“And there are risks aplenty,” Boot adds, which he then describes in detail, including the risk that the U.S. will run out of precision-guided munitions, a scenario already predicted in case of war with China.
