Wes J. Bryant - Former Pentagon Chief | War Analyst

"Bloodlust at the Top" | Wes J. Bryant | CNN | The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer YouTube video by Wes J. Bryant – Former Pentago Chief | War Analyst

Full interview: youtu.be/pOC7Vky_yDw

#IranWar #IranSchoolStrike #Bloodlust #ImpeachHegseth

…where I spoke in depth on the tragic and shameful U.S. strike on a girls' school in Iran and the factors that led to it—from the dissolution of Pentagon efforts to better protect civilians to a war-worshipping culture of bloodlust from the top down proliferated by Secretary of “War” Pete Hegseth.

“When we have this culture proliferated from the top… embodying the antithesis of everything we’re supposed to stand for as American warfighters—everything else tends to slip.”

Closing statement in my interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN's The Situation Room…

Full interview: youtu.be/Ud-8AQQlIWk

All my latest analysis on the Iran war and the chaos unleashing under this administration can be found at: www.wesjbryant.com/latest-analy...

#IranWar #InternationalLaw #AmericanWarfighter #WhatDoWeStandFor

I’ll be on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer tomorrow morning to discuss this and more.

Continuing to bring to light the lawless use of lethal military force under the Trump administration and the dangerous shift that’s unfolded so quickly under Hegseth, I joined @pbsnews.org to discuss the consequences in light of the unbelievably tragic strike on a girls’ school in Iran. My “why.”

Full article:
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

#MinabSchoolStrike #IranWar #InternationalLaw #RemoveTrump #RemoveHegseth

“Dismantling the fledgling harm reduction effort… is among several ways the Trump administration has reorganized national security around two principles: more aggression, less accountability.”

“The world has witnessed a tragedy in Minab that, if U.S. responsibility is confirmed, would be the most civilians killed by the military in a single attack in decades….

My experience as a Pentagon whistleblower is profiled in this hard-hitting piece by @propublica.org on the dissolution of DoD civilian protection efforts and Hegseth’s blatant disregard for U.S. and international law and the long-standing principles that separate us from our enemies…

theintercept.com/2026/03/09/i...

I’ll be discussing this more in depth tonight on @pbsnews.org News Hour.

“This is not the behavior of a leader of the free world.”

I fully realize we are well beyond that—but it needs restated as much as possible, because NONE of this is normal.

My latest analysis in @theintercept.com on the deadly strike against a girls’ school in Iran.

#MinabSchoolStrike #IranWar

I’ll be discussing this tragic strike on an Iranian elementary school more in depth tomorrow evening on PBS News Hour.

#MinabSchoolStrike #IranWar

While this Secretary of “War” can’t answer where the military he heads has dropped its own bombs and missiles—we’ve confirmed that U.S. Tomahawks hit this compound.

My latest analysis for BBC: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Full article: newlinesmag.com/spotlight/ai...

#IranConflict #Shiraz #RemovetheRegime

“It’s targeting 101…”

My analysis for @newlinesmag.bsky.social on yet another deliberate strike against civilian infrastructure in Iran—this time hitting an entire emergency medical compound.

But Why? By whom? And where is the accountability? These answers and more we must continue to demand.

Full article: newlinesmag.com/spotlight/ai...

#IranConflict #Shiraz #RemovetheRegime

and yet can brag endlessly about how “lethal” they are and post disgusting videos and memes from official government accounts celebrating the death and destruction and human suffering that they are inflicting.

End this lawless and morally depraved regime.

Hegseth has fired a lot of people but of course refuses to hold himself accountable. If anyone ever needs fired, let’s start with a Secretary of Defense and senior military commanders who can’t even tell the American people where they’ve dropped their own bombs…

But why? By whom? And where is the accountability? This is a complete departure from everything we were working toward when I was at the Pentagon in the now-defunct Civilian Protection Center of Excellence.

“I could tell immediately that this compound was deliberately targeted…”
 
I sat down with ABC #WorldNewsTonight to discuss the strike against an elementary school in south Iran that reportedly killed upwards of 200 civilians—most of them young schoolgirls.

#IranSchoolStrike #RemovetheTrumpRegime

Highlight from my interview with AsiaOne where I speak in depth on Trump’s War of Lies in Iran. NONE of this is normal.
 
Full interview and others at: www.youtube.com/@wesjbryant

In so doing, risking the lives of US forces, risking the lives of civilians, risking the well-being of our allies, and creating chaos throughout the entire Middle East.”

“The US military is now firmly, solely in the grip of the executive branch—and in this case, a fanatical tyrant. US military leadership is complicit in dismantling the rule of law, disregarding our constitution, and enabling a tyrant…
 
#IranWar #CrimeofAggression

Full article:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

The key questions: How did this happen? Who conducted the strike? And where is the accountability?

I’ll be speaking to these questions in depth over the next few days.

“Mr. Bryant… said the most likely explanation was that the school had been a ‘target misidentification.’”

Let’s talk about a strike that killed nearly 200 civilians in Iran—most of them reportedly young school girls.

#MinabSchoolStrike

Full interview: youtu.be/7aZY1k4rTWA

#USIranWar #RemovetheTrumpRegime

the manipulation of Trump and the U.S. by Israel and the hypocrisy while Russia and North Korea present far greater threats to the free world, and the chaos and atrocity unfolding in the Middle East.

A highlight from my interview with AsiaOne where I speak on the blatant lies from the Trump administration to justify large scale military aggression against Iran, the incredible danger in the most powerful military in the world now in the sole grip of a fanatical tyrant…