{"id":374946,"date":"2026-09-01T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T21:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/pentagon-chaos-is-trumps-war-machine-creaking-as-he-strikes-iran-again\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T22:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T21:00:08","slug":"pentagon-chaos-is-trumps-war-machine-creaking-as-he-strikes-iran-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/pentagon-chaos-is-trumps-war-machine-creaking-as-he-strikes-iran-again\/","title":{"rendered":"PENTAGON CHAOS: is Trump\u2019s war machine creaking as he strikes Iran again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/q6wnHrprPvA\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"PENTAGON CHAOS: is Trump\u2019s war machine creaking as he strikes Iran again?\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q6wnHrprPvA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The US has launched fresh strikes on Iran &#8211; just as senior American military commanders are warning Donald Trump\u2019s so-called secretary of war Pete Hegseth that the conflict is becoming unsustainable.<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>US forces have hit Iranian targets around the Strait of Hormuz, after Iran attempted to target commercial shipping and US forces in the region. Trump has warned Tehran that any retaliation will trigger even larger strikes.<\/p>\n<p>So where does this war go next? And as Hegseth faces warnings from his own generals, a depleted military and growing chaos at the Pentagon, does the Trump administration actually have a strategy for ending the conflict?<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has launched fresh strikes on Iran &#8211; just as senior American military commanders are warning Donald Trump\u2019s so-called secretary of war Pete Hegseth that the conflict is becoming unsustainable. [Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe] US forces have hit Iranian targets around the Strait of Hormuz, after Iran attempted to target commercial shipping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":374947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128813],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-374946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-channel-4-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PENTAGON CHAOS: is Trump\u2019s war machine creaking as he strikes Iran again? | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch PENTAGON CHAOS: is Trump\u2019s war machine creaking as he strikes Iran again? for free, here on News ISC. 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