And a wall between the two was built a decade ago. Considering it was hit on day one, obviously it was considered an important target, which makes it inexcusable that nobody checked it in a decade.

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throwaway85825 5 hours ago | parent [-]

A navy base on the contested straight of hormuz is always going to be a priority target. Militaries have pre existing contingency plans. Typically military bases don't move very fast.

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sofixa 5 hours ago | parent [-]

A decade to realise that a military base has been resized and there is an obvious school on what used to be a part of the same property isn't fast.

	▲	mpyne 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		"isn't fast" is basically how you'd sum up the U.S. military in a nutshell. So much of what it is in the past 3 decades is coasting off its Cold War legacy. Target lists for an Iran scenario should absolutely have been updated before use for combat, but if it turned out they had not been substantively reviewed ab initio in a decade, I'd absolutely believe it.
	▲	throwaway85825 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's not like iran has a public list of military facilities and what theyre used for.