Alex Horton

So his career has been defined, you know, by two decades of low-intensity conflict against insurgents who are –

often fighting in austere environments and fighting in a very specific way.

And, you know, I've spoken to some military lawyers about this, of, you know, the idea that I mentioned before about being on land is a lot more permissible when you can re-attack somebody.

You have to wonder how much of Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria and, you know, any number of other conflicts that the U.S.

has been in over the last two decades, how much of that

understanding and that finesse of dealing with it in that way has seeped into the rest of the military.

He stands behind him, but he wants to footstomp that Admiral Bradley was the one who took that second strike.

And by the way, this is something we articulated pretty clearly.

Carefully and clearly in the story that Bradley on his own determined he was going to take that second strike.

But his justification and the framing in his mind was he was going to fulfill the original order that Exeth had.

You know, I think it's a bit hypothetical.

I mean, there's reasons why you conduct yourself in a professional manner in a war.

And you do that, not because it's the right thing, but, you know, the U.S.

has always...

And not perfectly, though, has tried to set a different standard that is more than the adversaries like Russia and China and Iran that, you know, we we have a tough military.

We have a lethal military.

We will kill you with force.

But when a hurricane comes, we're going to help you out, too.

Right.

And setting the difference and distinction of what a world leader is and how it conducts itself is.