What is your impression of the military performance of the U.S., of Israel, and the two allies together?

Yeah, I mean, it's a great place to begin the conversation.

And the answer is, I think it's been largely a military success with the caveat that the United States and Israel have yet to convert what they've achieved in the battlefield into any kind of enduring strategic success, which is in many respects what matters most.

And I think that's largely the reason why we're still seeing the war develop as we are on the military side.

Look, I mean, as it was rendered by the Pentagon.

The United States and presumably therefore Israel went to the war with four key objectives.

Broadly, they were to degrade the Iranian ability to project force.

But do you see any signs that the regime might be cracking within or it might be more fragile than it might seem?