The Wall Street Journal reports that last week on Air Force One at a Delaware
tarmac President Trump held emergency talks with top war advisers — Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Kane, Defense Secretary Hegseth, and CENTCOM commander
Adm. Brad Cooper. Cooper drafted a punitive air campaign of up to two weeks;
after Iran’s missile attack on Tuesday Trump has pledged retaliation but is
weighing approval of Cooper’s 10–14 day intensive strikes aimed at crippling
Iran’s missile capability — a plan the military says would reduce U.S. reliance
on defensive munitions but comes amid warnings that air‑defense ammunition
stocks are running low — versus narrower strikes to preserve diplomatic space.
The WSJ says Cooper’s high‑intensity option is designed to sharply escalate and
break the previous tit‑for‑tat airstrike stalemate.
