Hebrew and American Reports Reveal a Heavy Toll from the Jordan Strike: Gradual Admissions of Losses Under the Pressure of Escalating Iranian Operations

Hebrew media quoted a former US Air Force pilot who provided new disclosures regarding the true toll of the Iranian missile and aerial strike that targeted American forces in Jordan, confirming that 15 American soldiers are suffering from extremely serious injuries as a result of the attack.

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The former American pilot added in his testimony that operational indicators confirm that between 3 to 5 soldiers who were on medical evacuation aircraft “may not have survived,” raising the cost of human losses for Washington in this operation.

In the same context, and confirming the unprecedented scale of human and material bleeding for the US army in the region, the American agency “Associated Press” revealed a shocking official statistic, confirming that 16 American soldiers have been killed and more than 430 others injured since the outbreak of direct confrontation and war with Iran last February.

These large figures provided by the international agency put an end to official American attempts to downplay the scale of losses, and prove that American bases are now under direct and intensive fire that exceeds the capacity and defensive capability of “CENTCOM.”

According to military experts and observers, the discrepancy between the leaked figures and official data represents a gradual implicit admission of the heavy losses being incurred by the United States, as a result of escalating and direct Iranian attacks targeting American bases and headquarters in various countries of the region.

Washington’s military circles usually resort to what is known as “verbal distillation” of information, by leaking parts of human and material losses to avoid immediate acknowledgment of the strategic failure of air defense systems in protecting vital bases, and to avoid alarming the American public opinion.

These new data demolish the brief narrative previously announced by US Central Command (CENTCOM), in which it attempted to downplay the scale of the disaster by acknowledging the death of only two soldiers, the loss of a third, and the injury of four others in the Jordan attack.

This large gap between the brief official data, pilot testimonies, and the statistics of the “Associated Press” confirms the existence of strict and unprecedented American secrecy regarding the true scale of difficult military choices; as Washington imposes a veil of secrecy on the results of the widespread Iranian attacks that now target various American bases in the region, for fear of the complete collapse of the American deterrence equation in the Middle East.