David Crist

“Beginning with the very first shipment of TOW missiles”
― David Crist, The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran

“DIA analyst briefed a group of senior three-stars in the Tank about the Iranian mine threat. The intelligence officer concluded his thirty-minute presentation: “We do not believe that Iran poses a major mine threat to the Gulf shipping at this time. Although the Iranians are capable of small scale mine laying . . . we estimate that they do not have the capability to lay and maintain systematic minefields. The threat is primarily psychological.”
― David Crist, The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran