{"id":2220744,"date":"2024-04-14T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-centcom-chief-irans-attack-was-maximum-effort-it-was-indiscriminate\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T14:02:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T18:02:56","slug":"ex-centcom-chief-irans-attack-was-maximum-effort-it-was-indiscriminate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-centcom-chief-irans-attack-was-maximum-effort-it-was-indiscriminate\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CENTCOM Chief describes Iran&#8217;s attack as a &#8220;maximum effort&#8221; that was &#8220;indiscriminate."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fex-centcom-chief-irans-attack-was-maximum-effort-it-was-indiscriminate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2220744&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former\u2063 U.S. CENTCOM Commander\u200d Gen. Frank McKenzie\u200c discussed \u2064Iran&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mitch-mcconnell-health-scare-the-official-explanation-versus-outside-analysis\/\" title=\"Mitch McConnell's health scare: Official explanation vs. external analysis\">recent\u2062 attack<\/a> \u200don Israel, calling it a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-losing-the-balance-of-power-as-key-middle-eastern-ally-shifts-toward-iran-report\/\" title=\"Report: Key Middle Eastern Ally Shifting Toward Iran, Biden Losing Balance of Power\">maximum \u200beffort<\/a>&#8220;\u2063 during an\u2064 interview on \u2063CBS News&#8217;\u200b &#8220;Face The Nation.&#8221; \u200dThe attack involved \u200b185 one-way <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/death-from-above\/\" title=\"Death From Above\">suicide drones<\/a>, 110 surface-to-surface missiles, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-begins-pressuring-israel-to-minimize-response-to-unprecedented-iranian-attack-reports\/\" title=\"Biden urges Israel to limit response to rare Iranian attack, sources say\">36 cruise missiles<\/a>. McKenzie highlighted the scale\u200b of the attack, emphasizing\u2063 Iran&#8217;s significant missile capabilities \u2064aimed at Israel.\u2063 Former U.S. CENTCOM Commander Gen. \u200bFrank McKenzie described Iran&#8217;s recent attack on Israel as a &#8220;maximum effort&#8221; during an interview on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face The Nation.&#8221; The assault included\u2064 185 one-way suicide drones, 110 surface-to-surface \u2064missiles, and 36 cruise missiles,\u2064 showcasing Iran&#8217;s substantial missile capabilities targeted at Israel.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Former U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander Gen. Frank McKenzie said Iran\u2019s attack on Israel on Saturday was a \u201cmaximum effort\u201d and not something the country could replicate again.<\/p>\n<p>McKenzie made the remarks during a Sunday interview on CBS News\u2019 \u201cFace The Nation\u201d while giving his assessment of the Iranian strike, which included 185 one-way suicide drones, 110 surface-to-surface missiles, and 36 cruise missiles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a big attack by Iran,\u201d he said. \u201cI think this was as close to a maximum effort as they could generate. And I\u2019ll illustrate it in this way. Iran has over 3000 missiles of various types scattered around the country. They have about 100 \u2014 probably a little more than that \u2014 missiles, largely in western Iran, that can target Israel. Based on what the Israelis are saying, I believe they fired most of those weapons at Israel. The Israelis, obviously, were able to intercept most of them. Iran could not replicate last night\u2019s attack tonight, if they had to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McKenzie noted that Iran used cruise missiles and drones to create a \u201cmulti-dimensional\u201d threat in an attempt to overwhelm Israel\u2019s air defenses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a maximum effort. Now the Iranians are going to backtrack and talk about moderation. There was nothing moderate about this attack,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was indiscriminate. And it was designed to cause casualties. So we should just consider that, as we take a look at it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow the Iranians have to sit back and consider: what they considered their most important capability, their ballistic missiles, their drones, and their- and their cruise missiles, have now been employed in a major combat test,\u201d he concluded. \u201cAnd frankly, that test has failed. So I think Israel this morning is now much stronger than they were yesterday. And Iran is relatively weaker than it was yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Iran&#8217;s drone and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yemen-lgbt-refugees-and-white-supremacy-everything-you-need-to-know-about-bidens-first-foreign-policy-speech\/\" title=\"Yemen, LGBT Refugees, And White Supremacy: Everything You Need To Know About Biden\u2019s First Foreign Policy Speech\">missile attack<\/a> on Israel &#8220;was close to a maximum effort as they could generate,&#8221; former CENTCOM Chief Ret. Gen. Frank McKenzie says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Iran could not replicate last night&#8217;s attack tonight if they had to\u2026Iran is relatively weaker than it was yesterday.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VTjsJvRyvK\">pic.twitter.com\/VTjsJvRyvK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaceTheNation\/status\/1779537214080274489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gen. Frank McKenzie, former U.S. CENTCOM Commander, described Iran&#8217;s recent attack on Israel as a &#8220;maximum effort&#8221; that Iran likely cannot repeat. Speaking on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face The Nation,&#8221; McKenzie provided his assessment of the Iranian strike, emphasizing its intensity and scale, which featured 185 one-way suicide missions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":2220745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/03\/McKenzie-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2220744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/03\/McKenzie-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2220744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2220745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2220744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2220744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2220744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}