The afterplan was never made and …

The boys will be schoolbombing boys until they run out of bombs and bullets

that our stellar Secretary of "War" forgot about a little thing called logistics planning? That thing that successful generals such as Eisenhower have historically spent most of their time and energies worrying about? That thing that seems boring and detail-oriented that can make or break a military operation? Yea, I'll buy that: Hic!Seth has spent the past year firing everyone with experience or common sense, abolishing attempts to keep the military diverse and inclusive, cutting ties with major universities, and spending more time on photo ops than on doing his job. Everything's just a game or a photo-op with this cabinet.

Manly bombing is the thing. Bringing up supplies is...what 90% of your force is needed for!

Fer’ real.

before you went and made a mess of things.

... to replenish the ammo supply before commencing this fiasco in the making? As that wise old philosopher, Ron White, so sagely observed, "Ya can't fix stupid."

is that maybe one of the reasons why they changed his title to Secretary of War? Did that change of office title release him from his pledge?

... in every regard. He doesn't just drink, he gets shitfaced, blackout drunk. And he's a semiliterate sociopath who cannot be trusted to make complex decisions on issues that potentially involve the loss of innocent lives, as well as the lives of our servicemen and -women. Just like his psychotic boss, he is pathologically selfish, and doesn't consider people he can't see or touch as real human beings, so their loss has no real meaning for him, and he dismisses any concern for the consequences of his actions.
Now he's shitfaced drunk with power that he doesn't possess the mental faculties to wield responsibly. But he wasn't hired in spite of those shortcomings, but because of them. Russell Vought's bible of malice and depravity, better know as Project 2025, specifically stated, though often couched in seemingly benign language, that terrorizing the populace, and the world in general, with extreme policies that are implemented with unwarranted savagery, is the quickest path to ensuring compliance with any future plans to establish Feudalism v.2.

They have an unlimited budget.
Remember Iraq, Rumsfeld would not send ammo of body armor and vehicle armor plates. And he said ya go to war with what you have. Families of soldiers were shipping gear.
This is the fucking republicans. Fuck all you anti war Trump voters. Boot up assholes. Take Barron with you. Booberts son has lots of time on his hands.

They are collateral damage.

This is a vanity war and he's loving it ... for now.

ON EITHER SIDE, are lost. Both of these guys are in it for themselves and that is IT. Period, FULL STOP.

neither does tsf.

Hegseth isn't worthy of trust with a national military

A drunken, Fox News flunky who is compensating for his tiny soul with adolescent bravado

Not aimed at the OP...just sayin'.

so if anything, Raw Story at least summarizes articles from many of the news sites that require subs (I sub to quite a few myself including Barron's & MarketWatch, but not the WSJ add-on).

trying to find out if I had missed something and US troops were on the ground in Iran.
I'm canceling my Raw Story daily email. This is more than carelessness, this is incompetence.

That would be an enormous news story. They surely are not in Iran.

No responsible journalist would be that sloppy, or that mileading.

about AI use.

...in the general vicinity of Iran!

They basically "borrow" from other news sites and juice it up a little to get more traffic.

under their headline: "Trump says the Iran campaign might last a week or longer, but dwindling stockpiles could limit his options"

Raw Story bungled their headline

Archive link to WSJ article: https://archive.ph/t4DK4

what a jackass

That whole Bush cabal is what drew me to find DU. Another war of choice, based on a lie. I was a much younger man then, it hits a lot harder now.

Peace

We're running into the same problem we had supplying Ukraine. Interceptor missiles are complex, expensive and time consuming to produce. We don't have the industrial infrastructure to support this. When they're gone, it's going to be a while getting new ones. That's been a bugaboo with DoD for some time. If we get into a protracted war, we ain't got the stockpiles.

Do we and Israel have more interceptor missiles than Iran has ballistic missiles and drones? Perhaps not. THAT is a huge problem. Drones can be downed by aircraft, but that's difficult operationally. Against ballistic missiles, there's no other defense.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=21055185

And I dont care Who or HOW MANY people dropped the ball on this; it MUST be fixed.
We need to have multiple suppliers again like we USED to have.

...immediately, rather they need heavy lift support at a port to restock the launch tubes. I think both we and Israel have been lucky that, while the Iranians, Hezbollah and maybe others have/had thousands and thousands of missiles, their ability to get a critical number at a coordinated time on target to overwhelm the radar and missile systems like the SM2 and Iron Dome has been lacking. My theory is that they have/had plenty of missiles but not enough launchers, trained crews and coordinated command and control to take strategic advantage of their stock. If we go against the 600 ship Chinese navy, we may see what the down side of this reality looks like when against a near peer adversary not the rag tag wannabes.

Batch of idiots!

republicans supporting the military any more, no matter where I see or hear it. They will get an earful from me (tho I doubt it'd make much difference to that level of denialism). Rumsfeld, Bush, and Cheney were among the first to short our troops on what they need to fight a war they wouldn't fight, but demanded be fought by the youth of our country. trump and miller and kegsbreath have taken it to a whole new level.

What if Russians and Americans walked off the battlefield and refused to fight someone else's money wars? I'm reminded of that old saying "What if they gave a war and nobody came?"...

In his first term, Trump loudly claimed that the military was low on ammunition.
Told by top generals (who didn't have names).
Has he been wasting this first year ignoring the need for ammo and supplies?

After all, Donald 'knows more than the generals.'

these geniuses haven't studied Ukraine and Russia's use of IRANIAN drones!

Production was already ramped up!

this is just mind numbing. I expect the Ds to take action asap, but it seems like Schumer and Jeffries might run interference. I never thought we would be here. The Ds should have called an emergency meeting.

That Russia did in Ukraine. Running out of ammo and bad planning.

It's all about who's at tbe top.

Is the administration as stupid as it looks or are they really crazy like a fox? I had my bias but never felt certain. Now they've gone to war without counting their bullets first. I'm feeling pretty confident now saying it's the former.

Basic warfare 101.

Amazed at the amount of munitions get thrown up to stop a single incoming missile.

Hose the sky, never mind the accuracy!

…For about a week, then we run out of ammo.

We are not geared for a sustained conflict and the Iranians know that.

All they have to do is survive - to demonstrate to the world that the US is a paper tiger underneath a veil of armour.