Hegseth said the Iranian government would be mistaken to assume the United States cannot sustain the campaign. He stated: “Iran is hoping that we cannot sustain this, which is a really bad miscalculation for the [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] in Iran.”
He also said the United States has ample supplies of weapons needed for the operation. Hegseth said: “Our stockpiles of defensive and offensive weapons allow us to sustain this campaign as long as we need to. … Again, our munition status only increases as our advantage increases. [And] our capabilities? We have only just begun to fight and fight decisively.”
According to Hegseth, additional combat power is still being deployed to the region. He said: “The amount of combat power that’s still flowing — that’s still coming — that we’ll be able to project over Iran is in multiples of what it currently is right now, when you add up our capabilities and those of the Israeli defense forces.”
He added that the timeline of the operation will be determined by U.S. objectives. Hegseth stated: “Our munitions are full up, and our will is ironclad, which means our timeline is ours and ours alone to control as long as it takes, to ensure the United States of America achieves these objectives.”
He concluded by rejecting claims that the conflict is widening. Hegseth stated: “So, this idea that [the conflict] is expanding — no, it’s actually simplifying, in a number of ways — exactly what we need to achieve and how we’ll achieve it.”
Source: U.S. Department of War.
