It may be worth noting that the transition from soldiers taking an oath of loyalty to the state to an oath of loyalty to an individual leader is one of the changes that was important in the fall of the Roman Republic and rise of the imperial...
More from the NYTimes today. Including General Dan Caine's diagram showing that Minab was on the list of target locations.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/world/middleeast/iran-minab-school-strike.html
and yesterday's article...
Hence his reversion to habit in tossing out multiple possible goals from which he will eventually pick one, claim it was what he wanted all along, ignore the rest, and declare victory. None of which addresses the geopolitical realities now...
After ten years it's hard to say. I don't recall the NYT story to be honest as that was a pretty bad time for us personally.
Ultimately, you always end up going to war with imperfect intelligence. That's just one more reason you should avoid...
Once you have CENTCOM's ATO, NSL, and the Electronic Targeting Folder(s) for the day of the attack, you can request the daily reports from tactical unit that flew or fired the mission. If the unit was able to execute the mission as specified, all...
Yes, there has been remarkable consistency from virtually every news source that has examined this...
the US government really seems to be the only ones bucking the trend, and even there, Hegseth, Rubio, Leavitt, etc.,
are never actually denying...
The next thing I would ask for if I were doing an investigation is the Target Information Package (TIP) for the IRGC base that was developed by the CENTCOM targeting cell and passed to a tactical unit for execution per the ATO. In researching...
Quoting the article,
The preliminary U.S. assessment suggests that the United States is "likely" responsible for the deadly attack but did not intentionally target the school and may have hit it in error, possibly due to the use of dated...
A college having to close up shop because of its sports program is the tail beating the dog to death. They are supposed to be in the education business, not the entertainment business. But Trump wants to close the department of education so you...
The most likely explanation is that either he doesn't want to hear about it or he doesn't want to be asked about it. The next reason is that none of them want to be the bearer of bad tidings to a man whose response may well be to "shoot the...