The episode of The Daily on this topic the other day was really good.
Old military saying, tactics win battles, logistics wins wars.
General Omar Bradley: Frequently credited with the variation, “Amateurs talk strategy and tactics. Professionals talk logistics.”
Hegseth is an amateur. This failure is his. He spent all his time attacking woke and not providing the logistical support needed to keep the troops in the field.
And no, i don’t agree with trumps attack on Iran. But this has been a cluster fuck that didn’t have to happen. Trump and Hegseth purged all the professionals and replaced them with sycophants.
Hegseth is an amateur.
Not even an amateur, he's a racist, misogynist wanker, who doesn't talk strategy or tactics, because he doesn't know a fucking thing about either. Instead, he talks pseudoscience about testosterone levels, obsesses about facial-hair regulations, and blocks promotions of women and Black men to senior ranks.
Yep that's a whole other element that isn't talked about enough:
Trump and Hegseth executed what I can only describe as a 'Stalin-esque' purge of officers, prior to this all starting.
Now they weren't literally executed or sent to gulags, but they're not part of the military anymore.
... this cripples your military's ability to do stuff that you, beforehand, probably would have just taken for granted as things that it can do. The kind of stuff that you normally don't notice, because you only notice it when it isn't being done correctly.
Fucking idiots.
But you should see the current testosterone levels of our troops!
Why? Are you providing gender affirming care?
No Dudes in Dresses™!
This Hegseth guy doesn't seem to think of either.
Because a resupply base was destroyed.
Saved you a click.
Feels like western media also seriously downplayed how much Iran blew shit up
Even more so, they did not cover how defenseless the bases were. This might shock many but Trump and Kegbreath started a war with Iran without first allowing the military to prepare. I swear, I'm not lying.
That's because they're incompetent.
However, they are clearly quite skilled at protecting pedophiles.
Yeah they...
'We' lost a THAAD radar array on I think literally day one.
Costs like a billion dollars, or two billion, or something, fucking cost plus accounting, I don't know!
(If you say an M1A2 Abrams costs approximately $20 million, well then thats 50 to 100 Abrams... or, roughly 1 to 2 entire Combined Arms Battalions)
Thats the thing that tells 'our' missle defense/interceptor missles 'oi bruv you got incoming', where to go, when to fire, which THAAD interceptor launching platform in what location should fire at which incoming.
Kind of an insanely huge deal.
The 'Golden Dome' got its eyes and brain obliterated, on day one.
So... 'our' entire missle defense strategy at that point was 'oh fuck, scramble together everything that can /maybe/ hit some of the shit THAAD is designed to hit, and also go to South Korea and dismantle their THAAD system so we can repair the one Iran blew up.
Trying to analogize this... Imagine its the Battle of Britain, and Germany manages to throw V1s at every single radar site in the UK, and wholly destroy them, on day one.
Its roughly that bad.
Important point. What else would you expect from two people whose entire careers until recently were tv personalities?
The Ukrainians really lucked out with that one.
But that was already in the post summary
I'm not seeing a post summary on this one
Weird, maybe is your client? I definitely do on Jerboa and Boost mobile apps. I haven't checked web but I'd be amazed if it wasn't there
That would be treason under any other circumstances, before things went all trumpily weird.
If he were real military instead of a yapping Fox talk show host, he'd be court-martialled for gross incompetence.
Which moron doesn't protect their supply routes? It's the whole interdiction doctrine.
But how could the chlamydia pressy know that a mediocre, alcoholic, racist TV host would be bad at running the military?!
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