… of victory on the battlefield and the military objectives that we've laid out from day one. Defeat the missiles, missile launchers, and defense industrial base which I laid out today. Defeat the Navy and deny Iran the ability to have a nuclear weapon. Clear, decisive, achievable. And Admiral Cooper knows, the CENTCOM commander, who we spent a couple of hours with last night, that in pursuit of those objectives, we have his back in every way. (08:56–09:02)
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Asserts that the military objective is to defeat the Iranian Navy and prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
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