mikeblack114.bsky.social
Are you shittin me?!?!! No, but you'll print that and I'll probably be investigated
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And yes I'm stating that almost certainly CENTCOM made a deliberate choice to avoid presenting honest facts in their brief to civilian leaders in order to get their preferred outcome, in conjunction with OSD letting them get away with it since OSD is a couple drunks, bridge, and a 26 year old nazi
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Overlord, Doolittle Raid, Operation Secret Squirrel (Senior Surprise), Army attack helos guised by AF helos clearing Iraqi air defenses at the start of Desert Storm air campagin, Osama operation, Inchon landing, Hiroshima strike, Operation Bolo
Just off the top of my head
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Overlord, Doolittle Raid, Operation Secret Squirrel (Senior Surprise), Army attack helos guised by AF helos clearing Iraqi air defenses at the start of Desert Storm air campagin, Osama operation, Inchon landing, Hiroshima strike, Operation Bolo
Just off the top of my head
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Only the Israelis get to use the Persian Test and Training Range
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MOP is a fuck off huge weapon designed to get after targets buried under literal mountains. The physics involved alone are insane, to say nothing of the myriad assumptions at varying confidence levels
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The "bunker buster" nomenclature that has been used popularly has really messed up understanding because 2,000 lbs BLU-109s are "bunker busters" (designed to penetrate some feet of reinforced concrete). 5,000 lbs BLU-113s are "bunker busters" (designed to penetrate more feet of reinforced concrete)
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Fighter pilots make movies, bomber pilots make history
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Well
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Huh
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Oh, huh
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Lol no, at least not as far as I know
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In the finest traditions of the Republican Party the IAEA was telling the world this prior to the strike but why would anyone in the USG need to listen to those stupid nerds
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Oh, this is the royal They
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The trick to having takes that age well is to read the news and have more than 2 brain cells to rub together
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Feinberg is basically the entire hope of the Dept not completely falling apart, which is, yknow, great
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I might adjust it a few years down to adhere to my "are you old enough to remember 9/11 or not" benchmark, but yeah pretty much
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Millennials aren't perfect but they're basically the only internet/mass media literate generation now
Hopefully their kids can reverse the zoomer trend
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Correct, they never actually attempted the close the Strait, it was a response to Iraqi strikes on Kharg and other Iranian ports
And even then it took a significant US response to avoid insurers pulling the plug
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The holes tell you nothing other than points of impact, the targeted void spaces are too deep underground to see anything one way or the other from overheads
Anything beyond that is supposition of weapons effects based on modeling that is subject to assumptions, not hard facts
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Hopefully getting elected governor of an increasingly blue state on the basis of Dem turnout prevents the worst of those from coming to fruition
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Although I can't shake the vibe she's a cycle away from Slotkin-level brainworms
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What average folks have been seeing as a practical matter is Presidents taking military action without any specific Congressional authorization, but what they're missing is the quiet legal cover citing the incredible expanding AUMFs (which obviously are in no way in play here)
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Fwiw I think something that is a core component to this discussion that is underappreciated by a lot of people (and thus might benefit from a Jamelle Bouie Explainer (tm)) is how the ever expanding AUMFs have been twisted to give de jure cover to what is de facto unauthorized military action
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Well, it's a Dem problem insofar as that's the only group you could expect to actually try to do something about any of it, in theory
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There's a 10% exemption lol
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It's worse than that, their staffers are 90% dipshits too
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That was the Bragg thing
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Oh yeah, in that context this is small potatoes enough they'd say something to the effect of "you can have them because we don't care enough to pitch a fit, just not forever and there will be a recovery time cost" sort of thing (similar to the B-2s in Yemen earlier)
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Combatant Command vs OT&E function....the service just provides the forces when ordered by the NCA, what the CCMD does with them is their problem
There is the dual hatted aspect where GSC is also STRATCOM's air component, but Omaha tends to take a not my monkeys approach to this sort of thing