When I see something like this I think of all the people in our military and IC who had a hand in this, from the first analyst who said, "Hey boss, I've got what looks like excavation at Khordad," to the rotating personnel on teams who have tracked it for years, to the IC folks who recruited assets to validate the target, to the targeteers and ordinance specialists who calculated the munitions, impact points and payloads, to the ground ordinance crews who loaded and the pilots who dropped those bombs on target. They could be sitting next to you at a stoplight, a restaurant or in line behind you at the grocery store. All of them unnamed and unsung. Kudos to each and every one of them. I can only imagine how they feel watching all of that potential carnage go up in smoke, each secondary explosion and missile cook-off serving as validation that they got it right.

Offensive supply chain targeting. "A C.I.A. expert had identified a type of coupler that was so hard to replace or repair that a refinery would remain offline for weeks."