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2024-08-27 Arabia

Greek cargo vessel attacked by Yemeni forces three days ago, continues to burn

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Posted by Fred 2024-08-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top
File under: Houthis

#1 "This Is A Clear Sign Of The Collapse Of American Credibility & Deterrence"

Posted by Skidmark 2024-08-27 09:14|| 2024-08-27 09:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Greek-flagged oil tanker on fire after Houthi attack, EU naval mission says

Posted by Skidmark 2024-08-27 09:17|| 2024-08-27 09:17|| Front Page Top

#3 #1 - it's a clear sign the massive DoD doesn't know how to wage war.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-08-27 09:47|| 2024-08-27 09:47|| Front Page Top

#4 yemen is a distraction. the enemy is iran. make them pay. occupy chah bahar.

Posted by irish rage boy 2024-08-27 10:32|| 2024-08-27 10:32|| Front Page Top

#5 it's a clear sign the massive DoD doesn't know how to wage war.

Well, the DoD *is* the Department of Defense. I say it's time to bring back the Department of War for situations just like this when you need to actively discourage some annoying miscreants.

Posted by SteveS 2024-08-27 10:59|| 2024-08-27 10:59|| Front Page Top

#6 DoD doesn't know how to wage war.

Of course they know how to wage war. But perhaps waging war the old fashioned way is déclassé or something,

Posted by trailing wife 2024-08-27 14:50|| 2024-08-27 14:50|| Front Page Top

#7 ^Kurt Schlichter: What Is Happening in the Ukraine War Should Scare the Hell Out of Us
The United States is not ready for the kind of war we are seeing played out in Ukraine, a peer-to-peer conventional fight that is rewriting the rules of what we thought war was supposed to be. And, with leadership in the White House sitting in a rocker staring slack-jawed at Matlock reruns, we are not in a position to fix what will mean defeat in our next real war.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-08-27 15:01|| 2024-08-27 15:01|| Front Page Top

#8 DoD probably has 'on the shelf' plans to hit the Houthis much harder.

However, they are constrained by ROE set by POTUS.

Posted by Lord Garth 2024-08-27 18:47|| 2024-08-27 18:47|| Front Page Top

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