The remarks differ from what Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is said to have told the president in high-level White House meetings.
President Trump said on Monday that Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, believed that any eventual military action ordered against Iran would be “something easily won.”
But that is not what General Caine has told Mr. Trump and other senior advisers in recent high-level White House meetings on Iran, people briefed on internal administration deliberations said.
Instead, General Caine has said that the United States has amassed forces in the Middle East to carry out a small or medium strike, but that there would be a potentially high risk of American casualties and that such an operation would have a negative effect on U.S. weapon stockpiles. General Caine has also underscored that the operations under consideration in Iran would be much more difficult than the successful capture last month of President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela.
My point is that the military is inherently political, so it doesn’t exist sense to say that the military performed admirably and the politicians ruined it.
The military leadership ARE politicians.
Military leadership is, since the president is commander-in-chief
But you can’t claim that because we left Afghanistan we were defeated militarily. The US could have stayed forever, if the presidents wanted it. Now that the US left, girls are not allowed to have an education