Chair of joint chiefs of staff and others in classified meeting said Iran is trying to get US to spend its munitions
Top military officials told lawmakers in a closed door briefing on Tuesday that they may not be able to shoot down every Iranian drone being launched against US military installations and assets in retaliatory attacks, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The officials, led by the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, Gen Dan Caine, said Iran has been deploying thousands of one-way attack drones and while they have capacity to take down the vast majority but not all of the barrage.
As a result, the officials said in a classified briefing for lawmakers on Capitol Hill, the US was focused on destroying the launch sites for the drones and conventional missiles as quickly as possible. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive details.
I don’t know, Hegseth just came out and said they definitely do today. It was probably totally unrelated to this.
Would the Trump administration lie?
We will release the Epstein files
I have the Epstein files on my desk
All of the files have already been released
There are no files, never were
There are files but they exonerate everyone on our side and implicate all of our opponents. No you can’t see them, just trust us bro.
Why are you still talking about the Epstein files?
The files are a democrat hoax… But they still exonerate Trump somehow
Okay here’s the files, but Trump isn’t in there once.
Okay we removed the 10,000 mentions of trump that we missed.
Stop talking about this, Dow is over 50k!
World War III is no time to discuss the Epstein files
Don’t be silly. Just because the lying liar that does nothing but lie and hire liars to lie for him as well, does so every day and all day, doesn’t mean they would lie!
I for one would be shocked, shocked I say, if they were lying!
Well… Not that shocked… It’s almost guaranteed to be a lie.
They also said, unprompted, they they have unlimited ammo. AKA they are going to run out soon.
The interceptor missiles they use – I forget the name because I don’t have a war boner – are expensive and have limited production capacity versus drones which are low five figures a unit and can be manufactured quickly.
I read some article basically saying wasting all of the missiles leaves a lot of the other places we protect open to attack and that our more serious enemies (China with Taiwan for instance) may be taking notes about how many we’re using.
Patriots, probably?
With all that laying experience at least it’ll be a good and convincing lie, and not an obviously transparent and easily disproved one.
Hmmmmmmmm…maybe.
The Trump administration would say no.