Joe Kent

Joe Kent's resignation means a ground invasion is coming.

Can you clear that up?

I mean, do you think a ground invasion is coming?

What's your personal assessment?

I don't, look, I don't know any like secret, I don't know any military plans.

I couldn't give them up even if I did.

But the president has said all options are on the table.

And one thing I do know from being in combat for most of my adult life is that things can change very, very quickly.

And there's decisions you think that you're going to have time to make, but you don't necessarily have that time.

If you have capabilities deployed

they tend to be used.

I mean, if military commanders feel that their troops are in danger or if they've been given a military objective of, hey, we need to take out all the ballistics, we need to take out the Iranian Navy, we need to take out the IRGC, and they have those resources on hand,

they'll deploy them.

Look, I respect everybody that's at CENTCOM right now.

I spent most of my life in the CENTCOM AOR, but CENTCOM is a very big war machine.

And that's a good thing if you can actually rein them in.

However, what I've learned in 20 plus years of seeing this play out is that if you give CENTCOM vague guidance or even kind of like relatively specific guidance, like,

they're going to run until you yank them back in.

It's what they do.

You've got to be able to really tame that lethal machine.