The Pentagon is seething over a Washington Post report that top military leaders recently warned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth against extending large-scale Iran war operations.
People familiar with a classified assessment prepared for Hegseth told the Post that several combatant commanders have advised the Defense chief that prolonging operations against Iran is unsustainable and risks weakening the U.S.’s ability to address threats elsewhere, including on U.S. soil.
The warnings appear in the Aug. 14 edition of the Secretary of Defense Orders Book (SDOB), detailed by the heads of the Army, Navy and Air Force, and the four-star commanders overseeing U.S. operations throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America, the Post reported Sunday.
I, an absolutely under-informed commenter, tend to agree. My impression is that the U.S. military is a pretty fearsome beast whose specific civilian leaders at the moment are witless, corrupt fools. If competent leadership were interested in the results this administration said they would get, it could presumably be done. Or at least something roughly approximating it.
Besides leadership you also need to account for the fact that, for better or worse, WW2 & 9-11 united both military and civilian logistics against a commom goal with international support. It made for brutal efficiency anywhere on the planet and gave rise to all the memes we know of now.
By contrast, this orange shitstain has fucked the economy, civilians, geopolitics, and most importantly the international logistics to project that military power in a way that isn’t a complete embarrassment. Even if a competent progressive leader replaced him, this can’t be fixed in a single term either and that is by intentional design of the Heritage Foundation that instructs Trump’s actions under the derangement.
I mean the us won one of those conflicts sure… not sure you want to be talking about the “success” of the war on terror…