Getting Serious About Iran (Again)

Hersh’s latest update on DoD planning for strikes on Iran (H/T to Intel Dump):

“…there has been a significant increase in the tempo of attack planning…”

I feel like I’ve read this same line from Hersh and other reporters at least five times over the past year. A good little exercise (that I don’t have time for right now) would be to go back and find citations for past claims that our military planning was really getting serious.

These repeated surges in DoD planning may be best explained as attempts to gain bargaining leverage. Or maybe it’s all real.