After reading innumerable articles about the purpose of the war, including Bret Stephens’ comments in an NYT column, I have concluded that the plan is as follows:
1. Bomb the crap out of Iran for about a month.
2. Figure out what to do next.
Carl von Clausewitz famously said that war was the extension of politics by other means. Going to war without any idea of what you are trying to accomplish is the opposite of that maxim.