Here's what US military says it struck across in 38 days of Iran war

The U.S. military said it hit more than 13,000 targets in its 38-day war with Iran, before the leaders of both countries announced a ceasefire on April 7, hours after President Donald Trump threatened that Iran's "whole civilization will die tonight."

Speaking to reporters the morning after the ceasefire was announced, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth and the top U.S. military officer called the war a success that had achieved Trump's military objectives.

The Pentagon "for now, has done its part," Hegseth said. But the two leaders said that the ceasefire was just a pause, and the U.S. military could strike again.

The war, which the United States launched jointly with Israel on Feb. 28, killed 13 American service members and thousands of Iranians, according to initial estimates. The ceasefire was clinched on April 7 as the hours ticked down to a deadline Trump set of 8 p.m. ET that day. If Iran did not stand down or open the Strait of Hormuz, the Trump administration had threatened, the U.S. military would unleash crippling attacks on Iran's power and water infrastructure and bridges – strikes that experts said would likely constitute war crimes.

The United States and Israel also struck many non-military sites in Iran over the course of the war, including a school in southern Iran where around 175 civilians were killed on the war's first day, as well as other schools and universities. Iran also unleashed retaliatory attacks on United States allies in the region, targeting U.S. military bases, colleges and universities, hotels and tech plants in those countries.

Pentagon provides accounting of Iran targets hit

Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at an April 8 news briefing following the ceasefire that the U.S. military had destroyed about 80% of Iran's air defense systems. That included 1,500 air defense targets, more than 450 ballistic missile storage facilities and 800 one-way attack drone storage facilities, Caine said.

The U.S. hits have drastically depleted Iran's ability to fight back, Hegseth said: "They may still shoot here and there, but that would be very, very unwise."

Iran's command and control and logistical networks were "devastated," Caine said, and the U.S. military had destroyed more than 2,000 "command and control nodes."

The United States sank 150 Iranian ships, comprising more than 90% of the country's naval fleet, and half of its small attack boats, according to Caine.

"The Iranian navy now lies mostly at the bottom of the Arabian Gulf," he added.

Caine said the military had launched more than 700 strikes that destroyed 95% of Iran's naval mines. While the war dragged on for more than a month, triggering Iran to strangle the flow of ships through the Strait of Hormuz, the Pentagon faced questions over how it would respond if Iran dropped mines in the vital economic waterway.

The war had also destroyed Iran's defense industrial base and the country's "ability to reconstitute those capabilities for years to come," Caine said. The U.S. military and Israel attacked about 90% of Iran's weapons facilities, he added, hitting every factory that produced Shahed one-way attack drones or the guidance systems that go into them, he said.

More than 80% of Iran's missile facilities are "gone," Caine said, along with their capability to produce solid rocket motors. More than 20 production and fabrication facilities for Iran's navy were also destroyed, he said.

"Nearly 80% of Iran's nuclear industrial base was hit, further degrading their attempts to attain a nuclear weapon," he said.

Among the list of the military objectives that he said had been achieved, Caine did not mention Iran's nuclear capabilities or enriched uranium stockpiles, originally cited by Trump as a central concern that necessitated a war. Hegseth told reporters that Iran's enriched uranium stockpiles are "buried, and we're watching it."

"They will either give it to us," Hegseth said, or, "We'll get it. We'll take it."