Brad Duplessis

I HAVE NO WORDS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Know Haswah and Jurf well. Think I was one of first Americans to enter Jurf in Sep 2003. Well before it was ethnically cleansed and became a KH stronghold. Who were you with?

Was at the power plant but visited Kalsu in its early days

My former company AO in Iskandariyah. Flew over it going from Amman to BIAP in 2018, looked down and immediately knew where I was even though it had been 15 years.

We can do better. Several of them are officially part of the Iraqi Security Forces and thus indirectly receive support from us.

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This will not cause any issues for Iraq whatsoever, right? RIGHT?

Former CGSOC Prof here (thanks Elon!). Can confirm. Also global force management but I heard that’s for cucks.

Not today

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Saw two “Beardos” during the first 5 minutes of my semi-annual trip to Fort Belvoir.

If I didn’t know any better, I’d think there is no strategy….once again.

W/n last 48 hrs 4 families received notifications that forever changed their lives. 2 more will shortly; their unit is still very much in the fight. It is impractical to expect protection everywhere, but we should expect leaders to talk about the gravity of these losses with sincerity and reverence.

Will admin put pressure on Iraqi govt wrt Iranian-aligned groups, many officially part of the ISF? Not sure GoI has ability/willingness to handle them due to domestic considerations. USG has funded to the tune of $ billions; thus indirectly supporting an adversary’s reach throughout region.

I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes:

Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.

The threat posed by shaheds was 110% anticipated and anyone who says otherwise is either misinformed or lying

I'm aware that category apparently includes the SECDEF and chairman

Strike-as-strategy ≠ a comprehensive theory of success for favorable war termination.

Beautiful!

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JFC!

Used to see him frequently in Baghdad. When McGurk resigned during Trump 1.0 a guy approached me in the embassy dining facility asking if I was “Mr. McGurk.” I wasn’t familiar with his game!

To further elaborate, this guy almost always exists in tactical units (BN and below) and is almost always:

1. Home schooled E-4
2. Home schooled O-2
3. A universally reviled O-4. Probably the S-3, the BN CSM wants to kill him
4. The BC, if you're very unlucky

Trump’s lies are often a tell, addressing something he’s feeling vulnerable about.

Under that interpretation, “virtually unlimited supply of weapons” means the depletion is real and serious, most likely with air defense interceptors the biggest concern.

The administration’s OEF plan. 😂

Believe so, but would have to do some research on it.

And Pete “taught” at the COIN Academy in Kabul.

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

Wait — IRGC control of the country was the plan?!?

I have to take a second here as a pedantic civ-mil person that while Powell's standards were, um, swell, they were also a problematic effort by the head of the military to box in the civilians.

Still, yeah, none of what Trump is doing here fits any sense of strategic or planning or US interest

WT in the ever living F?