赫格塞斯称，随着油价攀升至每桶100美元以上，美国和以色列军队现在在关键走廊自由行动
作者：摩根·菲利普斯
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2026年3月10日，美国东部时间上午9:12发布
与伊朗开战一周后，美国官员表示，美国和以色列军队正朝着”完全控制”伊朗领空的方向推进——这为更深层次的打击、更广泛的目标清单和一场似乎在扩大而非降温的冲突铺平了道路。
在本周的吹风会上，战争部长皮特·赫格塞斯秘书和参谋长联席会议主席丹·凯恩将军描述了他们所谓的关键走廊上空几乎无争议的领空，这一转变使得持续的轰炸行动能够深入伊朗境内。
“我们以压倒性和坚定不移的目标导向取得胜利，”赫格塞斯在周二上午的新闻发布会上表示。
凯恩表示，美军在行动的头10天内已打击了5000多个目标，其中包括数十个深埋的导弹发射装置，使用了2000磅的穿透炸弹。
来自华盛顿的信息传递出压倒性的军事优势。
但更广泛的图景——油价上涨、无人机战争扩大、对能源和民用基础设施的打击，以及波及北约领土的地区溢出效应——表明，尽管美国官员对其发展轨迹充满信心，但冲突的范围正在扩大。
德黑兰领导层强硬化
在冲突加剧之际，伊朗专家会议选举已故阿亚图拉·阿里·哈梅内伊的儿子穆贾塔巴·哈梅内伊为该国新最高领袖，在关键时刻巩固了神职人员机构和伊斯兰革命卫队内部的权力。
这一继位是1979年革命以来的第二次，表明伊朗的立场将延续而非重新调整。穆贾塔巴·哈梅内伊长期以来被视为潜在接班人，与伊朗安全机构内的强硬派密切结盟。
唐纳德·特朗普总统批评这一选择，称领导层更迭不会改变美国的目标，并暗示这反映了华盛顿一直试图削弱的同样根深蒂固的权力结构。政府已明确表示，无论谁担任最高领袖，军事行动都将继续。
这一过渡似乎强化了长期对抗的可能性，而非开启外交缓和的途径。
“无争议的领空”
赫格塞斯周二表示，美国和以色列已在伊朗上空实现”全面空中优势”，并”以残酷的效率取得决定性胜利”。
“这并不意味着他们不会投射力量，”赫格塞斯说。”这并不意味着我们的防空人员仍然不需要防御。他们确实需要。但这是能力退化的有力证据。”
“目前，他们的大多数高端地对空导弹系统已不再构成威胁，”凯恩说。
“战斗机正相对不受惩罚地深入行动，”他补充道，同时指出”总是存在一些风险”。
美军中央司令部负责人布拉德·库珀海军上将也报告称，伊朗弹道导弹发射量较冲突初期下降了约90%，无人机袭击下降了80%以上，他将这一下降归因于对发射装置和基础设施的持续打击。
尽管如此，官员们警告称，空中优势并不意味着所有威胁都能被阻止。伊朗仍在继续发射导弹和无人机，其中一些需要在该地区进行拦截。
弹药和策略的转变
赫格塞斯表示，这场战役正在从战斧巡航导弹等昂贵的防区外武器转向500磅、1000磅和2000磅的精确制导重力炸弹——他表示，这一转变反映了伊朗地对空导弹系统在关键区域已被压制的信心。
他称美国此类炸弹的库存”几乎无限”，并警告称华盛顿的时间表”由我们单独控制”。
强调重力炸弹不仅仅是修辞。这标志着向持续、高强度行动的转变，不仅旨在打击活跃威胁，还旨在削弱伊朗重建其导弹部队的能力。
无人机重新定义战争
尽管导弹发射减少，无人系统仍然是这场战争的核心。
伊朗大量依赖无人机——包括沙希德式游荡弹药——打击能源设施、施压美国基地并扰乱霍尔木兹海峡附近的航运。与弹道导弹相比，无人机成本更低、更容易大量部署，使德黑兰能够在其他地方遭受损失的同时维持压力。
作为回应，美国已向该地区部署了一套经乌克兰战场检验的反无人机拦截系统。乌克兰专家借鉴在俄乌战争中防御伊朗设计无人机的经验，协助加强基地防护。
无人机战斗凸显了一个关键动态：尽管美军可能在天空占主导地位，但低成本无人系统仍然可以制造风险并考验防空系统。
能源面临风险
霍尔木兹海峡——全球约20%的石油和主要液化天然气运输通道——已成为这场战争最关键的热点之一。
无人机袭击和伊朗威胁已大幅减少商业交通，推高保险成本，并迫使一些船只改道。由于担心中断可能持续，油价已攀升至每桶100美元以上。
以色列对伊朗石油设施的打击，以及伊朗对该地区能源基础设施的报复性打击，表明能源资产现在成为活跃目标。有关打击影响供水和海水淡化厂的报道进一步表明，战争正扩大到严格军事设施之外。
如果霍尔木兹海峡的不稳定持续数周，分析师警告称全球能源市场可能迅速趋紧，导致美国汽油价格上涨和新一轮通胀压力。
特朗普周一警告称，如果伊朗威胁霍尔木兹海峡的船只，美国将”比目前打击力度强20倍”。
北约邻近地区与地区反弹
战争已接近北约领土。两枚伊朗弹道导弹在土耳其领空附近被拦截，增加了更广泛联盟参与的风险。
伊朗还袭击了阿塞拜疆，遭到巴库的强烈谴责和土耳其的愤怒——土耳其是阿塞拜疆最亲密的盟友。值得注意的是，尽管伊朗在军事上升级，但尚未看到统一的地区集团为其辩护。
工业动员
尽管赫格塞斯断言某些进攻性弹药充足，但维持防空和导弹防御行动资源密集，而高端拦截弹的库存在冲突开始前已面临压力。
伊朗试图削弱与萨德和爱国者电池等平台相关的雷达系统。尽管美军指挥官表示发射率急剧下降，但拦截弹成本高昂且产量有限。
特朗普上周召集主要国防承包商，敦促加快拦截弹及相关系统的生产。如果行动以目前速度持续，扩大产量可能需要国会资金支持。
战场现在已从发射场扩展到供应链。
伤亡人数上升
五角大楼证实，已有7名美军士兵在伊朗袭击中丧生，8人重伤。
在美国方面的报道中，伊朗50多名高级领导人，包括最高领袖阿里·哈梅内伊，已被”消灭”。伊朗方面则称有超过1000人在打击中丧生，约175人（包括许多学童）在米纳布一所女子小学的袭击中丧生。
尚无组织声称对此次袭击负责，调查仍在进行中。
这一事件加剧了随着冲突扩大对平民保护的审查。
没有快速缓和的途径
战争进行仅一周多一点，轨迹显示的是扩大而非遏制。
美国官员对空中优势和持续打击能力充满信心。伊朗领导层在强硬派接班人领导下巩固权力。能源市场动荡。无人机战争继续考验防御系统。冲突已触及北约领土并打击民用基础设施。
核心问题是冲突将蔓延多远，以及军事势头能否超过该地区不断累积的经济和地缘政治成本。
Iran war, 11 days in: US controls skies, oil surges and the region braces for what’s next
Hegseth says American and Israeli forces now operate freely across key corridors as oil prices climb above $100 per barrel
By Morgan Phillips
Fox News
Published March 10, 2026 9:12am EDT
One week into the war with Iran, U.S. officials say American and Israeli forces are moving toward “complete control” of Iranian airspace — clearing the way for deeper strikes, a broader target list and a conflict that appears to be expanding rather than winding down.
In briefings this week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine described what they called near-uncontested airspace over key corridors, a shift that allows sustained bombing operations deep inside Iran.
“We are winning with an overwhelming and unrelenting focus on our objectives,” Hegseth said in a press briefing Tuesday morning.
Caine said U.S. forces have now struck more than 5,000 targets in the first 10 days of operations, including dozens of deeply buried missile launchers hit with 2,000-pound penetrating bombs.
The message from Washington is one of overwhelming military advantage.
But the broader picture, rising oil prices, expanding drone warfare, strikes on energy and civilian infrastructure, and regional spillover touching NATO territory, suggests a conflict that is growing in scope even as U.S. officials project confidence in its trajectory.
Leadership hardens in Tehran
Amid the intensifying conflict, Iran’s Assembly of Experts has selected Mojtaba Khamenei — son of the recently deceased Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — as the country’s new supreme leader, consolidating authority within the clerical establishment and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps at a pivotal moment.
The succession, only the second since the 1979 revolution, signals continuity rather than recalibration in Iran’s posture. Mojtaba Khamenei had long been viewed as a potential successor and is closely aligned with hard-line factions inside Iran’s security apparatus.
President Donald Trump criticized the selection, saying the leadership change would not alter U.S. objectives and suggesting it reflects the same entrenched power structure Washington has sought to weaken. The administration has made clear that military operations will continue regardless of who occupies the supreme leader’s office.
Rather than opening a diplomatic off-ramp, the transition appears to reinforce the likelihood of a prolonged confrontation.
‘Uncontested airspace’
Hegseth said Tuesday that the U.S. and Israel had achieved “total air dominance” over Iran and were “winning decisively with brutal efficiency.”
“That doesn’t mean they won’t be able to project,” Hegseth said. “It doesn’t mean our air defenders still don’t have to defend. They do. But that is strong evidence of degradation.”
“Most of their higher-end surface-to-air missile systems are not factors at this point in time,” Caine said.
“Fighters are moving deeper with relative impunity,” he added, noting there is “always some risk.”
One week into the war with Iran, U.S. officials say American and Israeli forces are moving toward “complete control” of Iranian airspace.(Sasan / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)
Adm. Brad Cooper, head of the U.S. military’s Central Command, also reported that Iranian ballistic missile launches had dropped by roughly 90% from the opening days of the conflict, while drone attacks had fallen by more than 80%, attributing the decline to sustained strikes on launchers and infrastructure.
Still, officials have cautioned that air superiority does not mean every threat can be stopped. Iranian missiles and drones continue to be launched, and some have required interception across the region.
A shift in munitions and message
Hegseth said the campaign is transitioning from expensive standoff weapons like Tomahawk cruise missiles to 500-, 1,000- and 2,000-pound precision gravity bombs — a shift he said reflects confidence that Iranian surface-to-air missile systems have been suppressed in key areas.
He described the U.S. stockpile of such bombs as “nearly unlimited” and warned that Washington’s timeline “is ours and ours alone to control.”
The emphasis on gravity bombs is more than rhetorical. It signals a move toward sustained, high-tempo operations designed not only to hit active threats, but to degrade Iran’s ability to regenerate its missile force.
Drones redefine the fight
Even as missile launches decline, unmanned systems remain central to the war.
Iran has leaned heavily on drones — including Shahed-style loitering munitions — to strike energy facilities, pressure U.S. bases and disrupt shipping near the Strait of Hormuz. Compared to ballistic missiles, drones are cheaper and easier to deploy in volume, allowing Tehran to sustain pressure despite losses elsewhere.
In response, the United States has deployed a Ukraine-tested counter-drone interceptor system to the region. Ukrainian specialists, drawing on experience defending against Iranian-designed drones used in the Russia-Ukraine war, are assisting in strengthening base protection.
The drone fight underscores a key dynamic: while U.S. forces may dominate the skies, lower-cost unmanned systems can still impose risk and strain air defenses.
Energy at risk
The Strait of Hormuz — through which roughly 20% of the world’s oil and major liquefied natural gas shipments transit — has become one of the most consequential flash points of the war.
Drone attacks and Iranian threats have sharply reduced commercial traffic, driving up insurance costs and forcing some vessels to reroute. Oil prices have climbed above $100 per barrel amid fears that disruptions could persist.
Israeli strikes on Iranian oil facilities, and Iran’s retaliatory targeting of regional energy infrastructure, signal that energy assets are now active targets. Reports of strikes affecting water and desalination plants further suggest the war is expanding beyond strictly military sites.
Iran’s Assembly of Experts has selected Mojtaba Khamenei — son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — as the country’s new supreme leader.(Photo by Reza B / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)
If instability on Hormuz stretches for weeks, analysts warn global energy markets could tighten quickly, translating into higher gasoline prices and renewed inflation pressure in the United States.
Trump warned Monday that Iran will be hit “20 times harder” than it already has if it threatens ships in the Strait.
NATO proximity and regional backlash
The war has edged closer to NATO territory. Two Iranian ballistic missiles were intercepted near Turkish airspace, raising the risk of broader alliance involvement.
Iran has also struck Azerbaijan, drawing sharp condemnation from Baku and angering Turkey, Azerbaijan’s closest ally. Notably, Iran has not seen a unified regional bloc mobilize in its defense, highlighting its relative diplomatic isolation even as it escalates militarily.
Industrial mobilization
Despite Hegseth’s assertion that certain offensive munitions are plentiful, sustaining air and missile defense operations is resource-intensive, and inventories of high-end interceptors were already under strain before the conflict began.
Iran has attempted to degrade radar systems tied to platforms such as THAAD and Patriot batteries.(Reuters/U.S. Army/Capt. Adan Cazarez)
Iran has attempted to degrade radar systems tied to platforms such as THAAD and Patriot batteries. While U.S. commanders say launch rates have declined sharply, interceptors are expensive and produced in limited quantities.
Trump convened major defense contractors last week to press for accelerated production of interceptors and related systems. Expanding output could require congressional funding if the campaign continues at its current pace.
The battlefield now extends beyond launch sites and into supply chains.
Rising casualties
The Pentagon has confirmed seven U.S. service members have been killed and eight seriously injured in Iranian strikes.
In Iran, the U.S. claims over 50 top Iranian leaders, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, have been taken out. Iran claims more than 1,000 people have been killed in the strikes and approximately 175 people, including many schoolchildren, were killed in an attack on a girls’ elementary school in Minab.
No group has claimed responsibility, and investigations are ongoing.
The incident has intensified scrutiny over civilian protection as the conflict widens.
No quick off-ramp
A little more than one week in, the trajectory points toward expansion rather than containment.
U.S. officials project confidence in air dominance and sustained strike capacity. Iranian leadership has consolidated under a hard-line successor. Energy markets are volatile. Drone warfare continues to test defenses. The conflict has brushed NATO territory and struck civilian infrastructure.
The central question is how far the conflict will spread, and whether military momentum can outpace the economic and geopolitical costs mounting across the region.