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On paper, Operation Epic Fury is hewing pretty closely to President Donald Trump‘s stated plan from the onset of the U.S. invasion of Iran. As reiterated during the president’s prime-time White House address during the middle of the incursion’s fifth week, the United States has come close to completing two of its goals, the complete obliteration of the Iranian Navy and ballistic missile capabilities, while progressing toward its second pair of objectives: defanging Iran’s ability to fund its terrorist proxies and permanently destroying the regime’s nuclear weapons capabilities. Trump, who initially said the operation would likely take around five weeks, pledged to “hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks,” telegraphing a mid-to-late April exit plan that would keep the total war time a matter of weeks, not months.