The Pentagon is seething over a Washington Post report that top military leaders recently warned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth against extending large-scale Iran war operations.
People familiar with a classified assessment prepared for Hegseth told the Post that several combatant commanders have advised the Defense chief that prolonging operations against Iran is unsustainable and risks weakening the U.S.’s ability to address threats elsewhere, including on U.S. soil.
The warnings appear in the Aug. 14 edition of the Secretary of Defense Orders Book (SDOB), detailed by the heads of the Army, Navy and Air Force, and the four-star commanders overseeing U.S. operations throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America, the Post reported Sunday.
I have to say, this whole Iran war thing has really opened my eyes to what is going on. Because we spend nearly $1T a year on our military, my assumption was that there was no military objective we couldn’t meet. Pretty much take on the rest of the world if necessary, since we spend nearly as much as the rest of the world combined.
Then they light off a bunch of stuff in Iran and everyone is like, “welp, we’re out.” Really? That fast? Guess all of that money was getting stolen as well. I should have known.
The Military Industrial Complex is a giant scam that funnels American taxpayer’s money to corporations and their billionaire owners. This video explains it in way more detail: https://youtu.be/T9IV09cvXx4
Yeah, but think of the shareholders profiting from all that war!
I remember back in those halcyon days of 2022, watching Ukranian farmers steal russian tanks, and thinking “Boy, it would be funny if the US had the same corruption problems”.
Oops.
A big difference with this bullshit is that it’s not really being fought as a war. These chucklefucks thought they could just go in, drop some bombs, fire some missiles, and that Iran would capitulate for some reason.
So it’s not even the full might of the US military, it’s just firing and depleting expensive ranged weapons and wondering why you aren’t getting the outcomes you wanted.
an active-duty Army lieutenant colonel who runs the account InfantryDort, of working for the “enemies of the United States.”
The “enemies of the United States” are currently in power. All MAGAs are Domestic Terrorists, and MAGA is an ongoing, active National Security Threat, and should be declared illegal. Resistance/ Opposition to MAGA is the patriotic stance.
Uh oh, we have another case of wrong think. Your social score is now lowered. You can appeal that lower score to peter thiel’s dick. Good luck.
Whistle blowers is probably a better description here
These days the DOD is about as leaky as Donnie’s diapers.
I applaud those who are willing to take the risk to get it out that at least some of the brass has guts enough to tell the boss he’s wrong.
It appears to me that information about the Aircraft Carrier’s neglect being reported by Stars and Stripes Magazine led the administration to replace it’s leadership and whatever else they just did promptly after.
In Kegs-breath’s DOD, there a non zero chance that dumbass leaked it himself.
I can’t believe Obama leaked state secrets
This is the information that was in Hilary’s emails stored on Hunter Biden’s laptop he was funneling to drag queens and illegal immigrants
Look, if you’re running such a shit-show that the fuckin’ Bezos Post publishes your leak, maybe you look in the mirror once you wake up from your post-workout everclear shots (gotta minimize them empty calories!).
The actual reason why they’re upset is because it is now public knowledge that doing this is stupid and their subordinates told them so, so they can’t deflect blame later. W and Rumsfeld were smart and evil enough to preempt or quickly get rid of those people before Iraq. It’s almost funny how they can’t even do another Middle East war of choice properly
Neither Iraq nor Afghanistan were done “properly.” Half the generals quit because the iraq invasion violated all precepts and doctrines of invasions. What is the ratio, 50 troops for every 1,000 civilians in a hostile population? The US went in with way less.
Don’t take my word for it, you can read EVERY single Inspector General Report on those wars where the inspector castigates our leadership in progressively certain terms.
I do get your point, these clowns are even less capable. But let’s not pretend the bush clows were. They were the worst administration to that date in time.
Right, I was thinking even partially as well as W did, which was already bad
Frankly, it had to be very bad to get these guys to go as far as “non-concur” in writing at all.
Hegseth is literally unqualified to manage a large bureaucracy of any kind, evil or not, much less one with bombs and guns. I am guessing that it’s a day-to-day operational shit-show, on top of being the same type of moral and long-term-strategy shit-show that Iraq was.
Hegseth is literally unqualified to manage a large bureaucracy of any kind, evil or not
As is his boss and most of that boss’ direct reports.
Are you claiming fox news anchors shouldn’t be running the executive branch of the United States? It feels like that should be a joke about what if things really went to hell but here we are.
I imagine it’s going as well as it did with the hidden destroyed bases
Fascism in full swing
Luckily fascists are also megalomaniacs and quickly run themselves into the ground. Sad times for America though.
I wouldn’t mind if they ran themselves into the ground a little faster
And harder
And stronger
Hegseth using Signal again huh?
Yep. And cocaine!
With cabinet officials, the cocaine use goes without saying. But we should say it more. They are all coked up. Steven Miller’s bitch ass for instance getting coked up for news inteverviews and shouting down and talking over his host, from prez’ first term. It is so obvious to anyone that’s ever binged on coke.
Pete Hegseth 2026 (Colorized)
A leak that experts in the area have told the idiot in charge something that anyone outside the military has been saying this whole time? Oh no.
Time for another “no one could have seen this coming”. We definitely haven’t had any historical evidence of pushing operations into places for made up goals only to find out it becomes long and drawn out with limited or no success at all. Nope.
Meanwhile in Canada: “Good! Good! Keep at it. Soon we’ll be able to attack the U.S. with little to no resistance and burn the White House down again.”
At the rate it’s going, Trump will demolish the rest of it before they get the chance.
from your lips to Carney’s ears
I’m surprised that the upper echelons of the military aren’t solely sycophants at this point with all their firings wnd eliminations.
That’s the thing about the military. For it to really function, you need to have layers of level headed trustworthy people who serve with honor. If you replace all of those people with cult members, your military will collapse, or become something that the rest of the government can’t actually control
Well, like you said, that only matters if you want your military to actually be good
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If you replace all of those people with cult members, your military will collapse, or become something that the rest of the government can’t actually control
Or both.
So basically ICE but less donut
But just as much sugar.
More caffeine and zyn
Member of Trump admin incompetent buffoon, more at 11
Pentagon Papers 2: Mideast Boogaloo
Pentagon (toilet) Papers 2: The Epstein Boogaloo
Which is the second movie in the Epstein’s Fury Epic.
awesome callback <3 I use it every once in a while to gauge my listener’s cultural intelligence >;-)
And much of what they’re publishing is inaccurate
What does this even mean? These are internal communications.
They lie to the boss
