Today is a pivot point in the conflict. As of today, I believe the United States has decisively lost the war with Iran, and we are now in a fighting retreat. This is not speculation or defeatism but a sober assessment based on undeniable evidence. Colonel Douglas McGregor and other military experts have been warning for years that the U.S. military machine cannot win a sustained conflict against a determined, geographically gifted, and technologically capable adversary like Iran. Now their predictions have been validated.