Brian L. Cox

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The Megyn Kelly Show · "Second Strike" Narrative Falls Apart, Kash Patel Responds, and How To Be a Man, with Rich Lowry, Charles Cooke, Elliot Ackerman, and Bryan Cox | Ep. 1204 · 2 Dec 2025 podcast

So, you know, this boat originally qualifies then as a military objective by definition that I just suggested, and it will no longer be a military objective if it is completely destroyed, right?

So, if under the circumstances no longer by its use makes an effective contribution.

And even with the facts that the Washington Post reports in that initial story, there's an indication to me, at least when I read this, that the commander involved must have assessed that it's still qualified, to use the legal term, still qualified as a military objective because he suggested that it could still radio for assistance and another boat could come and capture, retain, regain control.

of the cargo and then continue mission, almost said Charlie Mike, because that's what we call it in the military, continue mission.

And so, if that's the case, then it's my impression from reading that is that the commander must have assessed

that this boat still qualifies as a military objective, such that it can still be attacked.

Which would also mean, incidentally, that the personnel that are on board are not shipwrecked.

And if they were shipwrecked, let's call them order to come by, so out of the fight due to shipwreck.

So we should not attack them in that case.

But if the vessel that they're on still qualifies as a military objective, then they're not, but they're by definition, they're not shipwrecked.

And, you know, the commander could order subsequent strikes to finish the, you know, the mission, to complete the mission, to ensure that the boat is no longer serviceable, that no longer is a military objective.

That's right.

So and this is a difference between whether the boat was disabled or destroyed.

And so if I mean, if it's destroyed, we can think of, you know, pieces of boat floating around in the water, you know, and, you know, maybe a survivor's with a life vest on or clinging to it or whatever.

That's a destroyed boat.

And if that's the case, then there would be no reason to re-attack it.

But if the boat is disabled and again, by the initial report from The Washington Post, it's what it sounds to me like the commander involved assessed.

that the boat was disabled rather than destroyed, then it still qualifies then by legal definition, by law of armed conflict, as a military objective such that it can be attacked.

That makes perfect sense.

Absolutely, because at that point, if that's the intelligence that they have, at that point it absolutely still does qualify.

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