Travis Reese (Against war with NATO)

Hey, no rules of engagement. What isn’t clear about that? Those are just gotcha questions.

If the Daily Caller doesn't know what your objectives are, then you've clearly lost the plot and your audience. And, you may not have any articulateable objectives: "We have options and offramps...don't you understand that? Nukes! Radical Islam! Capabilities against us!"

Is Cain briefing right now or just readingn a lethality bed time story?

There's "Bombing to Win". I'm going to write it's sequel "Bombing to Find a Reason".

That was a given at this point. Ranks right up there with "fentanyl coming out of Venezuela".

a man with a mustache is wearing a beanie and a white shirt that says we all start somewhere . ALT: a man with a mustache is wearing a beanie and a white shirt that says we all start somewhere .

I get that developing a strategy is not just capturing ends, ways, & means. Yet, for these amateurs Lykke would've been a good place to start.

It's not like Iran is conveniently located adjacent to two pretty good examples of everything not being fine after killing bad people.

Middle East ports suspend operations as at least three ships are hit

▶️Operations suspended in Dubai, Oman and Bahrain ports, but others remain open
▶️At least three ships have been hit, several crew injured and one seafarer is confirmed dead

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Jeez, that's good.

It's the "See, they were always this way and this proves it!" recursive defense of a failed proposition.

Ryan stop it. If he had been a sitting senator & QT'd a neo-Nazi you'd be all over that in your reporting. You've done that numerous times at the desk in Breaking Points on others. Be serious here, he's got the time to vette who he QTs. You've beat that drum with Trump before...it's no different.

>eventually conceded the JCPOA was a useful path on the nuclear front. IRGC challenge was a different thing & I think it's important to de-link those two because one was not specifically connected to the other in service of regime stability.

>other better skills. Him amplifying the worst appreciation of this problem that starts w/ half-ass pretense of failed negotiations & culminates in illegal use of force is bad. This is also just Mattis circa 2013-14 amping up Iran planning & expecting that fight. Even Mattis<

>the JS. But 2 things broke me on him: the post-Abbey Gate revenge strike which killed an innocent family. I felt he should've called out Miley for the "righteous strike" & resigned for approving it. It was when I noticed his worst instinct for personal privilege & curated image took over for his<

I was his FSO for a MEU deployment in 2004 that was my first combat tour. As a G.O. I didn't think he'd get past 2-star since he was famously known as a guy who read books & had a clear wit & grasp of service politics. He was a career mentor for many years & as Dunford's DJS had a good handle on<

That's not negotiation, that's just dictating terms...which apparently was what was happening at the "talks" to begin with when the team was operating out of its depth and didn't understand the issues to begin with.

Trifecta
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Or just simply as a finalist to lead the Citadel.

I always have to laugh at the alternatives too. Were we just war-observing or war-supporting when others were war-combating? God, this is dumber than the misuse of "kinetic".

Important🧵 on changes to FMS system and the difficulty in searching sales for public transparency.

Doesn't mean people can't continue the staff slashing they started and think we can run the war with fewer people with no replacement solution.

And apparently we started this because of some vague threat that they were preparing missiles so we had to shoot first. How many fake reasons can be made up in one news cycle has got to be reaching records now.

Perfect.

Here goes. I guess soldierly virtues never really were because warriors really have that mindset that is a cut above. Who knew we got so far without knowing that?

The lethality mind virus will be studied for years. Probably by note takers listening to rants in a Waffle House or Dennys.

Iranians Take to the Streets to Celebrate Khamenei’s Death

Large groups celebrated Sadam's and Gaddafi's death. Doesn't mean, even with an occupation force, it made transition to "a" new government any less violent or fraught. This is just stage one & no one is greeting Isreal or the U.S. as "liberators".

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Treasury Department terminates union contracts for IRS and Bureau of the Fiscal Service workers The Treasury Department says it has ended its collective bargaining agreement with unionized workers employed at the Internal Revenue Service.

And you say the President has a $10B lawsuit against the IRS and has a beef with the workers? Yeah, but this is just good management y'know. One team and all that.

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Navy launches departmentwide organizational review that could reshape civilian workforce | Federal News Network “This comprehensive review may inform future decisions regarding workforce reductions or structures to better support our warfighters," a Navy official said.

Two things shake out of this:
1. DOGE was unnecessary by default & clearly didn't get results desired.
2. It's not really about "what are these people doing" it's "what are you willing to stop doing"? If the fantasy is AI will replace it...well boy..start smoking..
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Respect.

Thinly veiled reference to anti-war protesters as a part of potential domestic threats. OMG.

Murray "Iran is not an issue for the midterms, unless it is 'successful'." WTAF!