As of today, I believe the United States has decisively lost the war with Iran, and we are now in a fighting retreat. As I detailed in my earlier analysis of Iran’s war strategy, their approach is to blind, deplete, and overwhelm our defenses [2]. As one Middle East analysis put it, the war on Iran has been a strategic disaster for America and Israel [3]. What a Fighting Retreat Means — and What We Should DoWe are conserving what’s left, but the war is lost. Trump’s U-turn on Iran war has ended Israel’s Middle East dream.