{"id":21947,"date":"2026-03-29T14:47:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T14:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21947"},"modified":"2026-03-29T14:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T14:47:16","slug":"iran-didnt-get-lucky-we-made-it-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21947","title":{"rendered":"Iran Didn\u2019t Get Lucky\u2014We Made It Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Air Force has a doctrine where it should spread out planes and move which bases they fly from so it&#8217;s harder to take them out. The US apparently wasn&#8217;t practicing that doctrine, and is paying for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is more expensive to move maintenance teams around or have different teams available at multiple bases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Iran Didn\u2019t Get Lucky\u2014We Made It Easy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LUJXlHTFBAI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force has a doctrine where it should spread out planes and move which bases they fly from so it&#8217;s harder to take them out. The US apparently wasn&#8217;t practicing that doctrine, and is paying for it. <\/p>\n<p>It is more expensive to move maintenance teams around or have different teams available at multiple bases. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LUJXlHTFBAI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[253,1004,552,272,355,314,156,391,259,1282,619,158],"class_list":["post-21947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-air-force","tag-aircraft","tag-conflict","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-planes","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21948,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21947\/revisions\/21948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}