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This IMHO is the most important post of the month. Read it, reread it, then take notes.

RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT

Why was @secwar able to hermetically seal the southern border, eliminate crime in DC, arrest Maduro, and sink the entire Iranian Navy with a fraction of the casualties that “experts” claimed it would cost?

Because he did not include allies and academics.

Why is this critically important?

Because in previous wars they all handcuffed our warfighters with ROEs. Bookcases in the Pentagon and CENTCOM overflowing with them.

Going in with the element of surprise and shackling our forces to just one ROE, American rule of law, gave our side an overwhelming advantage.

But…

We just experienced the biggest war I’ve seen since I joined this app in 2007 and I’m not talking about Iran. It wasn’t a kinetic war. It was a war over academia and European control of ROEs.

@CynicalPublius and @DataRepublican got absolutely hammered but held their ground.

@RadioFreeTom and the other talking heads had enormous power over how the minds of admirals and generals are formed.

They had enormous influence via think tanks and meetings with allies over what’s acceptable in war and what isn’t.

And they were able to throttle opinion via displays of outrage on TV and articles in the Atlantic.

To use a maritime analogy, those ocean racing speedboats have two captain’s chairs. One is the helm and the other is the throttles.

The helmsman can only steer port or starboard, but the throttleman has forward and reverse on both the port and starboard propellers.

Guess which job is most important?

Pull too far ahead of the enemy and they pull back speed. Fall behind and they push full ahead.

Too often they push full ahead just as the boat is descending into the trough of a wave.

In our military the commander in chief decides the race time and location. The combatant commander steers the course. The media, allies, and the think tank “experts” are the throttle.

And they are absolutely losing their minds because Trump has removed them from the throttles.

This not only sucks away their power but their lucrative speaking engagements and book deals.

Nobody is going to pay big bucks to hear a washed-up Naval War College professor speak. They will pay the throttleman.

So Tom and friends are losing their minds and going on MSNBC and CNN to tell you all about how terrible this war is going.

What they are really saying is: this is a disaster because I was not consulted. Put me back on the throttles.

Except it isn’t a disaster. Go read those think tank and war college reports. How many deaths did they predict in a war against Iran?

Not one predicted this few casualties in week three, or this many military targets destroyed.

Tom and friends are telling you this war is a disaster, but by their own metrics it’s a stunning success.

Ask yourself why that is.
 


RE: The Way of War of Our Enemies

In every hot war the United States has become involved in since the Korean War, we have enjoyed absolute tactical and operational dominance over our enemies. We win every tactical engagement, overwhelmingly. Operationally we can and do dominate any theater of our choosing. No one—and I mean NO ONE—can stand toe to toe with the US military.

This has been true for decades.

We’ve talked before about the elements of national power—the “DIME” (Diplomacy, Informational, Military, Economic).

Our military power is unsurpassed. We are masters of diplomacy. We have the world’s strongest economy.

So how do we lose? The INFORMATIONAL component.

Our military opponents, from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Ladin, knew that the only way to defeat the USA is to demoralize the American populace such that it demands withdrawal and throws the then current Commander-in-Chief out of office. The ONLY way to defeat America militarily is to convince the American people that a war is unwinnable.

The slow dribble of IED deaths in OIF was not actually targeting soldiers and Marines—it was targeting YOU, the American people. And CNN eagerly complied with death counts running across the bottom of the screen.

The Tet Offensive? It was a decisive US victory that could have ended the Vietnam War in our favor. But Walter Cronkite instead declared the war lost, protests erupted nationwide, and the war was lost.

The Highway of Death in Kuwait? We could have taken out Saddam Hussein in 1991 and never needed to go back in 2003, but international media made the attack on retreating Iraqis look “too cruel,” so we halted just short of the finish line.

The strategic imperative of every one of America’s military enemies is to break the will of the American people with skewed information, propaganda, and extreme emphasis on America’s minor losses amidst overwhelming military victory.

But the Ho Chi Minhs and Osama bin Ladins can’t do that by themselves. They need willing partners in the American media and government.

And for Operation Epic Fury, boy oh boy do the Iranian mullahs have an over abundance of American morale killers to draw from in order to defeat America through the informational instrument of national power.

Tucker Carlson.

Senator Mark Kelly and the rest of the Seditious Six.

CNN.

ABC.

NBC.

CBS.

NYT, WaPo.

Pakistani bot armies on social media.

X “influencers” like Cerno, Candace, MartyrMade and Ian Carroll.

Every idiot claiming we are fighting “Israel’s war."

There is an entire Army of American politicians and media figures who are willingly fighting Iran’s informational war on its behalf (and in some cases, at its behest).

America is DECISIVELY WINNING the war on Iran in every measurable respect.

Yet there are so many influential Americans who are desperately determined to make you believe otherwise.

In days of old in non-US countries, such people would have been strung up for treason.

Thankfully it’s 2026 and we have a First Amendment, so no one fear being treated in such a medieval manner. But we can still ostracize and ridicule such people and sources for the irreparable harm they are wreaking upon the USA as they do the bidding (intentionally or unintentionally) of Theo-fascist mullahs who are determined to set off a nuclear bomb so that the Twelfth Imam will arise from a well in Qom and precipitate the global apocalypse.

We all need to choose sides. Are you with America, or are you with theologic-inspired, deliberate Armageddon?

And anyone who chooses the latter needs to be the target of mockery, derision and clearly-stated facts disproving their lies.

And if YOU are an American Patriot, you can fight that informational war on America’s behalf, right now, right here on social media, right there in your own living room. Your voice matters, and your voice is actually a part of the war.

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT.
 
Fewer and fewer people are believing his BS. Not only was there 0 evidence that they were working on a nuclear weapon, according to our intelligence agencies they didn't even want to make one because they knew exactly what would happen if they did and it's happening right now.
Look at their missile tech, if they wanted to make a nuke they would have by now. Russia and China are their friends, not a leap to think they could have had everything they needed for a nuke by now.

Then Trump said last year we bombed the shit out of them and took away all their nuke capabilities for years. Now less than a year later Tulsi says they haven't even started to rebuild that facility but trump says they were weeks away from making a nuke.

Just another war provided to us by Israel. No idea what they had on Trump but it must have been a good one. I didn't think he was involved with the Epstein Files but now it's coming out that Epstein settled with one girl who they both raped and he paid her off for both of them.

So many lies to get its into this war but people just refuse to look and listen. Instead the propaganda machine rules the airwaves.
 


🇮🇷 Everyone sees the drones… but not the tiny trick that keeps them coming.

Iran builds these kamikaze drones using regular Western tech, processors, GPS chips, stuff made in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

But sanctions block direct access, so they move through shell companies and quiet middlemen.

Now here’s the catch.

Every chip has a serial number. If a drone crashes and that number is intact, investigators can trace it straight back to the supplier… and the whole network starts collapsing.

So Iran solves it in the simplest way possible.

Before assembly, they literally scrape or laser off every marking on the chip. No brand, no serial, nothing to trace.

Suddenly, a downed drone becomes a dead end. Intel agencies are left guessing, spending months trying to reverse engineer basic parts.

Cheap trick, big impact.

A bit of sandpaper… and the entire supply chain stays invisible.

Source: Loaded Lore YT
 
There will be ground troops probably the IDF, Kurds and Turks. Maybe some Arabs will send a few peacekeepers too? The US will take the islands that have the oil.
 
Well, the Iranians knocked down a few jets before, look for B-52 losses soon...if this is real.
The IDF are cowards and always have been.
 
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