Tom Nichols

We have these objectives we can achieve.

What is it you want us to do, Mr. President?

Where are we supposed to be going with this?

And in the absence of that, they do operations.

They say, okay, well, we can destroy some more factories.

We can blow up some more airfields.

We can take out some more boats.

We can do that all day.

you know, at least until we start running out of ammo.

So in the end, it's the people that are supposed to know that are the kind of people that Pete Hegseth has been firing left and right.

Look, this is one of the most war-gamed scenarios in American, modern American history.

We

We have been wargaming scenarios about fighting with Iran for almost 50 years.

They've got tons of operational plans sitting on the shelves about everything.

But if the president just kind of wanders into the candy store and says, give me one of those, give me one of those, and give me one of those, the military salutes smartly and says, yes, sir.

Two quick points.

The other thing about Nancy's point about the Army, the Army took casualties.

We spent a lot of time on, you know, watching television with the air war.

But when some of those bases got hit, those were Army people.

that we lost.