Iran's Jordan Base Strikes Caused Limited Damage, U.S. Officials Say

In the long and tangled history of great power friction in the Middle East, Iran has struck a U.S. military base in Jordan — not with the force of open war, but with the measured pressure of a conflict that neither side fully wishes to ignite. The physical damage was limited, yet American officials now face a quieter reckoning: the invisible wounds of blast exposure, which may have left service members with traumatic brain injuries that no satellite image can capture. This moment reminds us that the true cost of modern conflict is often written not in rubble, but in medical charts and the slow