Date: March 2nd, 2026 11:04 AM
Author: UN peacekeeper
U.S. Sending More Forces as Mideast Conflict Widens
Campaign in Early Stages, Pentagon Says, Without Offering an End Date
At a Pentagon news conference, Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, did not give a time frame for how long the operation against Iran would go on. President Trump told The New York Times on Sunday that the United States and Israel could keep striking Iran for “four to five weeks.”
The president has offered conflicting visions of how the war could end and who should take over in Iran after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s autocratic supreme leader, was killed in a U.S.-Israeli attack on Saturday. Critics say the Trump administration has no clear endgame and casualties are already mounting, including four U.S. soldiers whose deaths the Pentagon has announced since Sunday. “We expect to take additional losses,” General Caine said.
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