I’m assuming ”boots on the ground” means someone in proximity to the President is floating another campaign ala Libya or Syria where SOF coordinates assets and does some version of UW with local forces.

We’ll of course the boots aren’t on the ground, they’re on the table.

Got it. There's plenty of funding to send troops into harm’s way, but not to take care of their health afterwards. This is shameful.

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House says Spain has agreed to cooperate with US operations in Mideast after Trump threatened financial penalties. MADRID (AP) — Spain's government denies cooperation with US operations in the Middle East, contradicting White House.

Logistics is woke. Supply is woke. End-state planning is woke. Force protection? Believe it or not, woke

BFO, but if we’re smoking dinky surface combatants two thousand miles from the strait of Hormuz, I think it’s safe to call this a general war.

This is the exact same Guy you could find 2,000 years ago as a Roman senator gleefully listing the number of Germani slain and sold into slavery, 900 years ago exulting in the sack of Jerusalem, or 100 years ago celebrating 500 yards taken on the Western Front. Timeless chickenhawk scum.

This is wildly unpopular in Colorado and will only signal weakness to Trump.

Tradwifes are out, tradewives are in. go run that merchant vessel, outfox those Portugese and discover the spices of the indies

this briefing appears to have gone so poorly that even members of the democratic party feel comfortable about taking the risk to get out in front of something they think is going to be a catastrophe. do you understand how difficult it is to get democrats to do that? do you truly fathom this???

is it a good sign when the uniform response to a classified briefing is basically everyone immediately doing a vertical video about it in which they spend most of the time screaming that we’re all gonna die?

Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, Florida; Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, Nebraska; Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, Minnesota; and Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, Iowa Honor the dead. taskandpurpose.com/news/militar...

There’s a type of guy that’s a millennial and/or zoomer that thinks war is romantic in that it’s unopposed nighttime helicopter raids, room clearing, and air strikes because that’s what they’ve been fed by pop culture and haven’t given a second thought on how those things are supported

But what do the Baileys think of Chiang?

It appears we may have replaced Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei

Reserve and National Guard troops have proportionally born far more of the brunt of combat losses over the past few years, from the USAR casualties in Jordan in 2024, the IAARNG soldiers killed in Syria in December, and now this

love to insulate shipping companies from the liability of putting their employees in harms way and potentially causing an ecological disaster

The Department of Defense does forever wars and the Department of War does defensive combat operations, hope that clears things up!

What’s the name of this organization? We call it the Department of War And the head of that department is? The Secretary of War And the workers in this organization? Warfighters And these people are fighting a war. Oh no. My goodness no.

Unfortunately JSOC took him out

Shout it from the rooftops!

You guys have got to exercise a little skepticism occasionally. A substack reporting an advocacy group founder’s summary of an anonymous tip line is not necessarily the whole truth of a situation.

Agree. Announcing DUSTWUNs (Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown) is appropriate and better informs the public of the cost of the campaign.

had a death in the family and was almost completely off the internet for a few days & my observation is that there is too much happening too fast such that basic facts abt the world are difficult to ascertain unless you are mainlining info all the time & doing that seems to drive people insane

1/ Videos of Iranian Shahed drone strikes in the Gulf have been eye-catching, but lack an important nuance: they are less technologically advanced and used differently than Russia's similar Geran-2 drones, as Russian warbloggers point out. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/tend...

One of the greatest, Bruce Campbell, announcing he has cancer. Our hearts are with you Bruce, Hail to the King.

Vance saying “There's just no way that Donald Trump is gonna allow this country to get into a multiyear conflict with no end in sight” is going to be in the trailer backed by ominous music while images of children playing slowly turns into footage of destroyed buildings and burned out vehicles.

My concern is this: Iran is using the cheap stuff to deplete the region's air defenses. Then, in a few days or a week, it launches what's left of its more capable missiles.

One of them is a reliable partner in the region, the other is KSA.

I mean, we *should* be surprised because it's unconscionable, but are we really surprised anyway what I'm pretty sure happened here is a LSA at Arifjan got hit (presumably a bunker they were sheltering in), and that would have been a mascal event, which raises.....questions

guessing we’re tapping the strategic petroleum reserve again even though it’s down ~50% from pre-Russian invasion levels and oil is $70 a barrel. guys it’s supposed to be for emergencies not whenever you get scared your foreign policy is unpopular

Seems like the Trump administration’s staggering idiocy just got six U.S. service members killed - who never got advance warning from their own leaders to take cover. www.cnn.com/2026/03/02/p...

6 killed in action is nearly half the number killed at Abbey Gate so surely we’ll soon see the veteran community go apoplectic because that was always about the loss of life and not just another reason to hate the Biden Administration right?

Dems should call for Hegseth to resign

The United States is going to cut the Iranians off from their strategic stockpiles of human urine, plastic cooking jugs, cheap cell phones, AA batteries, copper wiring and bits of random metal.

Current US plans for Iran:

My neighbour told me Kuwaiti air defence keeps eating his F-15s so I asked how many F-15s he had and he told me he just goes and gets another F-15 so I said it sounds like he's just feeding F-15s to Kuwaiti air defence and then his daughter started crying

Remember what I said about how, when Trump is flailing, they start inserting a fake, fictional Trump into their stories, who is acting rationally and sanely?

3 planes?!?

because of Trump, you can’t do the Canadian girlfriend thing anymore

Tyler Austin Harper should escort Reza Pahlavi into Tehran.

Running through our stockpile of advanced munitions that are time and tech intensive in the middle of a chip/memory shortage in a war of choice is some real strategic brilliance.

the plan, such as it is, appears to be “bomb a country of 90 million people that is already facing a water crisis into a failed state, walk away and declare victory” this is a monstrous nightmare regardless of whether or not it “works”

Don’t ask Kermit Roosevelt Jr what Ike had him doing in 1953.

i think there's a sort of dynamic at play where the GOP get more leeway on international conflict due to how they're dad/man-coded whereas Dems are not

the average understanding of natsec for the average voter is "make the bad images go away"

“... and special capabilities we can't list here!“ Graphic design is my passion ass AI generated poster.