Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/26/air-superiority-war-planing-iran

To explore the roots of Donald Trump’s Iran military strategy and the pugilistic rhetoric of his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, means looking back 105 years. In 1921, a year before Benito Mussolini and his blackshirts marched on Rome to launch the Fascist era, an Italian general named Giulio Douhet published The Command of the Air, proposing a revolution in warfare.

Victory in the future, he said, would no longer come from the grinding trench combat of the Great War. Instead it meant large-scale aerial bombardments, targeting not just combatants but civilians and civilian infrastructure and logistics.

“[It] is much more important to destroy a railroad station, a bakery, a war plant, or to machine-gun a supply column, moving trains, or any other behind-the-lines objective, than to strafe or bomb a trench.”

“[It] is not enough to shoot down all birds in flight if you want to wipe out the species;” he wrote, with a grim metaphor. “The most effective method would be to destroy the eggs and the nests systematically.”

@Powderhorn The US never declared war. Congress never even approved a wartime powers resolution authoring limited strikes. This is a war by the Republican party and its god.

So what your effectively saying is that a country can't declare war unless the entire nation is in agreement.

No, specifically the US can't declare war unless a majority in Congress are in agreement