Throughout the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, Washington has relished(享受、品味) the display of its conventional military superiority(常规军事优势). President Donald Trump’s administration has boasted of(吹嘘、夸耀) its quantitative achievements: before the April 8 cease-fire, the United States alone flew more than 10,000 air sorties(空中出击架次), hit over 130,000 targets, and intercepted(拦截) 1,700 Iranian missiles and drones. According to U.S. Central Command(美国中央司令部（CENTCOM）是美军十...), the campaign demolished(摧毁、拆除) more than 85 percent of the facilities that Tehran used to produce missiles and drones, sank the majority of Iran’s naval vessels, and eliminated 70 percent of its missile launch infrastructure(导弹发射基础设施).
在整个美伊（美国与以色列联合对伊朗）战争期间，华盛顿沉浸于展示其常规军事优势。唐纳德·特朗普总统的政府夸耀其数量成就：在4月8日停火之前，美国单方面出动了超过1万架次空中作战任务，击中超过13万个目标，拦截了1700枚伊朗导弹和无人机。据美国中央司令部称，该行动摧毁了德黑兰用于生产导弹和无人机的设施超过85%，击沉了伊朗大部分海军舰艇，并消除了其70%的导弹发射基础设施。
But degrading(削弱、降低) Iran’s military capabilities was not the broad strategic goal Trump laid out(阐述、制定) in the early days of Operation Epic Fury(Operation Epic Fury（...). He variously promised to achieve the complete surrender of the regime, to protect the Iranian people from their leaders’ brutality, to rid the region of Iran’s malign influence entirely, and to wrest a better nuclear deal from Tehran than the one U.S. President Barack Obama reached in 2015. All these aims remain elusive(难以实现的、难以捉摸的). The regime in Tehran survived. And it has cleverly adapted toward an attrition strategy(消耗战略) that has badly strained(使紧张、耗尽) the U.S. arsenal, threatened civilian infrastructure across the Middle East, and added a new dimension of power projection(力量投射) by effectively closing the Strait of Hormuz(霍尔木兹海峡位于波斯湾与阿曼湾之间，是世...) and pressuring the global economy.
但削弱伊朗的军事能力并非特朗普在‘史诗之怒’行动初期提出的广泛战略目标。他曾做出多种承诺：实现伊朗政权的完全投降、保护伊朗人民免受其领导人的残暴统治、彻底消除伊朗在该地区的恶意影响，并让德黑兰同意比奥巴马总统2015年达成的协议更有利的核协议。所有这些目标仍然遥不可及。德黑兰政权存活了下来，而且巧妙地转向了消耗战略，严重消耗了美国的军火库，威胁整个中东的民用基础设施，并通过有效封锁霍尔木兹海峡向全球施加压力，从而增加了力量投射的新维度。
Although the U.S. military’s approach to the region has delivered many operational successes, the Iran war has exposed(暴露、揭示) its serious shortcomings and created new challenges. As it demonstrated an unmatched ability(无与伦比的能力) to rapidly deploy massive air and sea power, the Pentagon(五角大楼（the Pentagon）是美...) also deepened its relationships with Middle Eastern militaries, especially with the Israeli armed forces, with which it fought its first truly joint campaign(联合作战行动) since World War II. But Washington’s tactical successes could not make up for its strategic missteps(战略失误). Its failure to build a fighting coalition beforehand—or even to make the case(提出充分的理由) on the global stage that Iran had become an imminent threat(迫在眉睫的威胁)—left it struggling to build international consensus to confront Iran’s asymmetric tactics and finalize a strong postwar deal. And the conflict dangerously ran down(耗尽、减少) the U.S. arsenal. The United States simply cannot afford to fight another war like this one.
尽管美国军方在该地区的做法取得了许多作战成功，但伊朗战争暴露了其严重缺陷并创造了新挑战。在展示出快速部署大规模空中和海上力量的无可匹敌能力的同时，五角大楼也深化了与中东军队的关系，尤其是与以色列武装部队的关系，这是自二战以来美国与以色列首次真正意义上的联合作战。但华盛顿的战术成功无法弥补其战略失误。其未能事先建立一个战斗联盟，甚至未能在全球舞台上提出伊朗已成为迫在眉睫的威胁的充分理由，导致其在应对伊朗非对称战术和敲定强有力的战后协议方面难以建立国际共识。这场冲突危险地消耗了美国的军火库。美国根本承受不起再打一场这样的战争。
TOUR DE FORCE
实力展示
CALL TO ARMS
武装召唤
A MOVING TARGET
不断变化的目标
ADAPT OR DIE
适应或消亡
