Matt Bracken

Matt Bracken

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Old frogman, sailor, boatbuilder, novelist, rabble rouser. Banned over a meme 2019-2023, until Elon's Twitter 2.0.

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Vietnam was 1/10 the size of Iran, with 1/6 its population. We had 550,000 troops and over 4,000 combat aircraft in country, operating from bases right there. Millions of Vietnamese and 58,000 Americans died. AND WE LOST THE WAR.

This is complete strategic incoherence. We are being led to the abyss by a madman who is pulling ideas out of his ass hour by hour and posting them on social media. Generals and Admirals need to start resigning. I say this as someone who voted for Trump 3X, went to rallies, and drove 11 hours to attend J-6 in person.

I'm getting a strong feeling of déjà vu with Sec War Hegseth's daily repetition of of our record-breaking bombing raid sortie numbers. We've seen this movie before. It does not have a happy ending. 🧵 Tell us when the Strait of Hormuz is open to shipping at pre-28-Feb sneak attack levels. Until then, even if we level every Iranian city, WE ARE LOSING. And the entire world sees it, and blames us for the global economic wreckage.

This is the level of "scale" retardation on X. This is why I make my maps. Qeshm is bigger than Okinawa. That "little" island Larak is bigger than Iwo Jima. twitter.com/Matt_Bracken48/sta...

To win a war, (In this case a war that we started), it's critical to understand the history and thinking of your adversary. To know his limits. Iran defended itself from Iraq for 8 years during the Iran-Iraq War. The USA supported Saddam Hussein in his offensive war to conquer Iranian territory. About a half-million Iranians died, the figures vary. They did not surrender, but rallied and pushed the Iraqis back out of Iran. This war included the widespread use of poison gas by the Iraqis. The U.S. and Germany provided Iraq the precursor chemicals. (Later, Saddam used poison gas against his own Kurds, and that is the part we remember.) The Iran-Iraq War also included SCUD missile attacks in both directions, but primarily by the Iraqis against Iranian cities. Those Iran-Iraq war veterans are now men in their 60s, and they are greatly respected. This history is taught to all Iranians: that the USA backed Iraq in this long and bloody war of aggression against their nation. The concept of fighting an 8-year war of attrition is well known to them. The younger generations of Iranians will not surrender to what is seen as another American war of aggression. In my opinion, Iran will never surrender, not even if we turn Teheran into Gaza or Dresden.

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