The Pentagon admits that Iranian strikes damaged and destroyed hundreds of buildings at U.S. bases across the Middle East

A U.S. government watchdog released its first report on the impact of the Iran war on Monday, acknowledging the military’s advanced weapons shortfalls and offering the first public look at the damage to American aircraft, bases and diplomatic outposts in the Middle East.

Much of the information has been previously reported over the past six months, but the Pentagon inspector general’s report offered the fullest official accounting so far of the conflict’s costs in American lives, taxpayer dollars and physical damage.

It included information from the watchdogs for the Defense and State departments as well as the U.S.

Agency for International Development.

The report, whose publication was first reported by NBC News , noted that the U.S. war with Iran “has resulted in strategic inventory shortfalls and revealed industrial base bottlenecks for munitions resupply” in regard to advanced weapons.

Experts have previously said it will take about three years for military contractors to replenish advanced missiles and defensive missile interceptors to prewar levels.

The report, which covers April 1 to June 30, also acknowledged that Iranian strikes damaged and destroyed hundreds of buildings and other structures at U.S. bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman and Jordan.

Dozens of American aircraft and drones also were destroyed or damaged.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Congress in late July that the war had cost $37.5 billion so far.

The costs to U.S. diplomatic facilities , however, had not been previously publicly released.

Such outposts in Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE took the brunt of the physical damage, with an estimated cost of $184 million, according to the report.

The State Department reported in early June that its overall costs from the conflict came to $113 million, with nearly $80 million used to respond to contingency plans, including evacuation expenses for U.S. personnel and their families as well as other American citizens and eligible third-country nationals.

The State Department reported that in the weeks and months after the U.S. and Israel first struck Iran on Feb.

28, the Trump administration evacuated about 9,000 U.S. citizens from countries in the Middle East and Europe.