The request from a senior officer at the US military command carrying out President Donald Trump's war with Iran came in an email: We need ideas. A second source also said that a senior US military officer sent the message last week soliciting new ideas for how to deal with Iran. The crowdsourcing-style query, which military officials said was unusual over email, is one sign of the limited — and potentially unpalatable —options available to Trump to force Iran into a deal on his terms. The second source said CENTCOM is looking at everything, acknowledging it needs to reevaluate the strategy. And it's unlikely that would resolve what has become the war's central issue: Iranian claims over the Strait of Hormuz.