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Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:18 pm to AlterEd
His approval rating is going to completely tank leading to a midterm bloodbath if this war escalates and they cannot figure out how to address the cost of oil.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:18 pm to IMSA_Fan
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His approval rating is going to completely tank leading to a midterm bloodbath if this war escalates and they cannot figure out how to address the cost of oil.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:19 pm to IMSA_Fan
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He also signed the Doha Agreement, handing control of Afghanistan over to the Taliban, in an attempt to end the cycle of nation building and never-ending wars in the Middle East as a cornerstone of his foreign policy agenda that he ran on in 2020.
I don’t think Trump wants to do “Nation Building” in Iran like we saw in Iraq and Afghanistan. He wants the Iranian people to overthrow their government and put a more palatable one in place. Whether or not that works remains to be seen.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:20 pm to The Egg
I'm just here for a new LoG album.
And so it goes
The ashes of the wake.
And so it goes
The ashes of the wake.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:20 pm to IMSA_Fan
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His approval rating is going to completely tank leading to a midterm bloodbath if this war escalates and they cannot figure out how to address the cost of oil.
How do you square your comment of Israel goading him into this with his stance on military intervention in Iran for the past 46 years and him literally campaigning on bombing the "shite" out of middle eastern terrorists? You're pivoting here.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:21 pm to BOHICAMAN
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I don’t think Trump wants to do “Nation Building” in Iran like we saw in Iraq and Afghanistan. He wants the Iranian people to overthrow their government and put a more palatable one in place. Whether or not that works remains to be seen.
The rare reasonable and rational viewpoint. Kudos.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:23 pm to The Egg
This is going to end up biting us in the arse.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:27 pm to northshorebamaman
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I'd go much further than that, but yeah, different discussion.
I’m gonna do it anyway because frick it.
I’d reduce the size of the Marines by at least half. Leave maybe a regiment on each coast to deploy on MEUs. Then I’d have a squad of seasoned and highly trained(like Force Recon level) Marines on each Navy destroyer to conduct ship boarding, embassy reinforcement, other SOF type stuff that can be accomplished without massive support from the Air Force or 160th type assets that need to be moved across the globe. And keep the embassy guard role of course. And if I really had my way I’d transfer aviation and most other non-combat roles over to the navy. Leave the bulk of the heavy lifting ground combat to the Army IMO.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:38 pm to AlterEd
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Like everything else he does this was planned out long in advance.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:38 pm to RelicBatches86
I’m pretty sure Marines would be deployed first in the event of a large scale ground invasion
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:52 pm to The Egg
I guess ‘privately said’ is supposed to sound more legit that ‘sources say’?…
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:53 pm to KCT
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You're praying for a long engagement just because your TDS is that much out-of-control.
You voted for this……right?
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:54 pm to The Egg
Trump will never put boots on the ground.
This is stupid.
This is stupid.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 10:00 pm to Bham4Tide
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Trump will never put boots on the ground. This is stupid.
Of course he would
Posted on 3/6/26 at 10:25 pm to northshorebamaman
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GWOT really fricked up a lot of people's idea of how these units are normally used.
Well, has the battlespace not changed a lot?
Posted on 3/6/26 at 10:26 pm to BOHICAMAN
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Whether or not that works remains to be seen.
It has never worked---the next person is typically worse than the previous because they are now even more mad at the foreign government that killed their ppl.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 11:13 pm to BOHICAMAN
quote:You're halfway to my idea.
I’d reduce the size of the Marines by at least half.
This post was edited on 3/6/26 at 11:14 pm
Posted on 3/6/26 at 11:18 pm to northshorebamaman
Oh cmon. I gave the army a ton there. Let us crayon eaters have something
Posted on 3/6/26 at 11:35 pm to grizzlylongcut
quote:The battlespace changes but the reason doctrine exists is specifically to define capabilities that work across different battlespaces. It’s built around capabilities that remain useful as wars change.
Well, has the battlespace not changed a lot?
The 82nd is the Army’s rapid-deployment airborne division built for forcible entry at scale and contingency response.
Rangers are elite light infantry built for raids and airfield seizures.
Special operations forces, taken together, are specialized units built for missions like counterterrorism, unconventional warfare, special reconnaissance, and working with partner forces in places conventional units aren’t designed to operate, and they are not designed or intended to perform the same large-scale missions as formations like the 82nd or the Ranger Regiment.
They didn’t exist to support SOF before GWOT and they don’t now. GWOT just warped people’s perception because SOF operations dominated the wars and Rangers often operated alongside them.
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