It’s an effort to repeal the 2002 AUMF (Iraq war), which isn’t relevant to this discussion.
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Drug Boat Strike
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If it was a maritime LE action (via maritime AUF), heading or turns wouldn't have any bearing (see what I did there). It's still a non-state actor operating in non-compliance and has met the ROE (via approval by TACON).
I completely understand the lack of clarity by the administration on what action this actually was, and thus the reluctance of members here to endorse it. I'm just giving you the historical precedent for the maritime LE side.
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Plan “A/B” Retired
Well it is called WILDerness for a reason.
Bottom line, this should have been a F3EA thing, (find, fix, finish, exploit, analyze) thing. It’s what I did for three years of my life.
To the best of my knowledge, they just did F3. The only reason I can think of to not do the exploit/analyze is to get rid of the evidence.
Sink the evidence and fire the JAGs.
To the best of my knowledge, they just did F3. The only reason I can think of to not do the exploit/analyze is to get rid of the evidence.
Sink the evidence and fire the JAGs.
That was step one.
Couple of good articles in the NYT and The Atlantic discussing this might be reasserting the Monroe Doctrine and also Secretary of State Rubio’s involvement.
The Venezuelans Cheering Trump’s Drug War
To certain members of the opposition, the Caribbean anticartel operation seems to promise long-awaited salvation.
As an MQ-9 guy, this sucks. It doesn't matter if it's true or not, our political leaders have put them in a position where they will second guess themselves. Did they kill people who didn't deserve it? Maybe. Maybe they're okay with it now. Maybe it will haunt their dreams and keep them from a night's sleep when they're 70.
We killed a lot of innocent people in the GWOT via hellfire from a Predator or Reaper because we didn't really understand what was going on. I want to believe we learned something from that.
I want to believe that the guys who pulled the weapons consent switch will be able to know that these people deserved to die.
I fear that our politicians won't lose sleep over this. I fear they've moved on. Meanwhile a JO and an NCO is grappling with a decision every time they log on to social media.
The thing is: for good people, empathy doesn't stop at national origin, socioeconomic status, race, gender, or political affiliation.
We killed a lot of innocent people in the GWOT via hellfire from a Predator or Reaper because we didn't really understand what was going on. I want to believe we learned something from that.
I want to believe that the guys who pulled the weapons consent switch will be able to know that these people deserved to die.
I fear that our politicians won't lose sleep over this. I fear they've moved on. Meanwhile a JO and an NCO is grappling with a decision every time they log on to social media.
The thing is: for good people, empathy doesn't stop at national origin, socioeconomic status, race, gender, or political affiliation.