Agree. While the 🇮🇷 regime has a higher pain threshold its offensive options are limited
The 🇺🇸 end state is nebulous based as it is on the whims of an erratic & intemperate president but regime change is a bridge too far & there is no appetite to see more service members returning home in body bags
I’m partial to this description.
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The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit.
I remember hearing the same talking points from Cheney & Rumsfeld staffers after Kabul fell in November 2001.
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CENTCOM:
Good points in this thread.
To succeed, tactics must support a coherent strategy which accounts for 2nd and 3rd order effects. That strategy should support long term policy goals
The U.S. is operating in a policy vacuum.
Success whatever that might be requires more than ordnance and slopaganda
I don’t have the words to describe the level of stupidity of these people and the generational harm they’re doing .
Hegseth’s reaction after discovering that the enemy gets a vote.
Important to note that if the vote totals are roughly the same in the April 7 runoff, Fuller should net about 51.2% which was total for all republicans running yesterday in Georgia 14.
Harris is over performing and the bigger fight will be on November 7th.
Trump going with the Leeroy Jenkins strategy. 🎁 link
“Mr. Trump has said both that the war could go on for more than a month and that it was “very complete, pretty much.”
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BREAKING: Leaked Pentagon documents reveal highly classified CENTCOM war plans
Hey NAVCENT, what’s the plan for opening the Strait of Hormuz?
NAVCENT :
How to say you don’t have a plan without saying that don’t have a plan.
“Gen. Dan Caine said the Pentagon is working on options to get commercial maritime traffic moving.
“We’ll look at the range of options to set the military conditions to be able to do that,”” news.usni.org/2026/03/10/o...
The US has burned through over 1,000 Patriot interceptors ($4 million each) to stop an onslaught of Iranian drones ($20k to $50k each).
Using my last gift link from Bloomberg, which is doing some of the best reporting anywhere on the war.
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NEW: The Russian military simply does not have the capacity to overrun Ukrainian defenses that Putin constantly claims. 🧵⤵️ (1/5)
1/ Ukrainian forces are successfully counterattacking not only in the Oleksandrivka and Hulyaipole directions but also in western Zaporizhia Oblast. isw.pub/UkrWar030926
Pro tip: if the Trump administration wants to reduce veteran’s disability benefits, it should stop engaging in pointless wars.
Hey Tis, glad you’re feeling better. Hope you’re home soon!
On behalf of the Airborne, if it doesn’t involve jumping thru burning Hula Hoops or throwing hatchets while doing backflips, it’s not part of the METL and you should just get some OGA Special Activities guys with assorted other dudes to drive east from Erbil in a bunch of Hi-Lux pickups.
A report by the Nat’l Intelligence Council completed before the U.S. & Israel launched attacks on Iran assessed that even a large-scale military assault on the country would be unlikely to topple its theocratic gov’t, according to U.S. officials briefed on the work. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/w...
Clocks will skip ahead an hour at 2 a.m. Sunday for daylight saving time in most of the U.S., creating a 23-hour day that throws off sleep schedules, plunges early-morning dog walks into darkness and inspires millions of complaints. https://to.pbs.org/4lfFZns
It’s been a good week for Toyota dealerships in Erbil.
Wonder how much a Hi Lux Quad Cab is going for? www.iraqinews.com/iraq/iranian...
13 countries are on board so far and rumor has it that Wakanda may also participate
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The primary election in Oklahoma is June 16th.
Will be interested to see when confirmation hearings will be scheduled.
Trump’s strategic doctrine in three words,
“Forget about next”
Given the history of the U.S. abandoning Iraqi and Syrian Kurds…
“Some Iranian Kurdish leaders said they were hesitant to work with the United States to launch operations in Iran, given the potential costs to their people if the effort failed.”
No paywall. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/u...
Markwayne Mullin’s tough-guy schtick is extremely cringe, but it’s going to become hilarious in his new role as “guy who gets dog-walked by Stephen Miller.”
Basra Police confirm to Rudaw that a US aircraft has crashed within the borders of the province. Security forces have launched a search operation for the pilot.
Saw this as well. Have yet to see DoD explain what’s driving the decision. www.stripes.com/theaters/eur...
