Good to have a President with a backbone!

[Always in His Presence]

US launches new round of strikes targeting Houthis in Yemen​

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American warplanes launched a new round of airstrikes against multiple targets in Yemen controlled by Houthi extremists, President Donald Trump announced Saturday.​

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The strikes are aimed at destroying “terrorists’ bases, leaders, and missile defenses,” he wrote on his social media site Truth Social, and are meant to “protect American shipping, air, and naval assets, and to restore Navigational Freedom.”​

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Here is the important part:​

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The strikes come after the White House has loosened Biden-era restrictions on military commanders in conducting airstrikes on militant targets. Commanders in the Middle East and Africa now can take strikes where they see fit, without asking the White House to approve them.​

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One official, granted anonymity to discuss internal discussions, said the uptick in strikes in Somalia in recent weeks targeting al-Shabab militants, and strikes in Syria against Islamic State leaders, are the result of the new policy, adding there will be more strikes in the region to come as the military sees new opportunities to hit militant leaders.​

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ROE'S will either cost or save lives.

 

[dogs4thewin]

Odds are it will BOTH cost AND save lives.

 

[Bradskii]

Didn't he have trouble with bones sometime back?

 

[Pommer]

Didn't he have trouble with bones sometime back?

If he hadn’t had his bone spurs (which kept him out of the draft), I’m sure that his military career would have been with honor and he would have distinguished himself until such time as he was discharged.

Of course, had he served and gotten onto the Wall we wouldn’t be having this conservation.

 

[loveofourlord]

now if he could just show that with putin.

 

[Nithavela]

It doesn't take backbone to order airstrikes. Even Obama could do it.

 

[Always in His Presence]

It doesn't take backbone to order airstrikes. Even Obama could do it.

Reading the OP would have prevented this comment.

 

[Nithavela]

Reading the OP would have prevented this comment.

I don't see how.

 

[RDKirk]

It doesn't take backbone to order airstrikes. Even Obama could do it.

He's not ordering airstrikes, he's just said, "Do what you think is necessary." Generally speaking, that's a good thing. Requiring White House approval for unit-level military operations is a red flag of a poor political concept. That's a president who doesn't know why he's fighting the war, and he hasn't actually conceptualized "victory." The overall operational mission is murky.

People have different opinions about Margaret Thatcher, but during the Falkland Islands War between the UK and Argentina, after the UK suffered the surprising loss of the HMS Sheffield, the press was hammering her for a comment. Her comment: "I have given the commander a mission. When he completes his mission, he will make his report to me. Until then, I have nothing to say to you." That response made me smile.

What airstrikes the commanders think necessary depends on the overall operational mission given to them...which we don't actually know.

Is their operational mission to support the Saudis?

Is their operational mission to keep shipping lanes open?

Or something else? That's going to influence where and when the military commanders believe they need to make airstrikes.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Here is the important part:​

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The strikes come after the White House has loosened Biden-era restrictions on military commanders in conducting airstrikes on militant targets. Commanders in the Middle East and Africa now can take strikes where they see fit, without asking the White House to approve them.​

So if we blow up an orphanage, Trump will use his backbone to courageously say, "I had nothing to do with it. The buck stops with that field commander."

 

[Always in His Presence]

So if we blow up an orphanage, Trump will use his backbone to courageously say, "I had nothing to do with it. The buck stops with that field commander."

When IF's and BUTS become candy and nuts - every day will be Christmas

 

[Bradskii]

So if we blow up an orphanage, Trump will use his backbone to courageously say, "I had nothing to do with it. The buck stops with that field commander."

I'd suggest that if that little plaque which says 'The buck stops here' was still on the desk when Trump assumed office then his first act would be to toss it in the bin.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Messages with Yemen war plans inadvertently shared with reporter appears 'authentic': Official​

Jeffrey Goldberg was included on an unsecure group chat on Signal.

Members of the Trump administration coordinated highly sensitive Yemen war plans on an unsecure group chat, which accidentally included Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, he wrote in a report for the publication on Monday.

White House National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes shared with ABC News the statement he provided to The Atlantic confirming the veracity of a Signal group chat, which Goldberg said included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

www.theatlantic.com

The reason I knew [about the attack 2 hours before bombs dropped] is that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted me the war plan at 11:44 a.m. The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.

This is going to require some explaining.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

The Atlantic? Sounds like typical left wing lies. The administration of the architect of the end of the Afghanistan war would never make such a rookie mistake. The Secretary of Defense was like some mid level guy in the military and knows stuff.