In 1979, our military branches operated nearly independently, each as it saw fit. So, in a brave attempt to rescue our American hostages, the President. Carter authorized a joint military rescue mission that, because of their individuality, was uncoordinated, collapsed in flames, and left dead soldiers in a foreign Middle Eastern desert. It was a debacle, and the whole world saw it, especially our enemies, and our more astute military planners realized the problem and took corrective measures to see such a humiliation didn’t occur again. The Iranians scored a point against the Great Satan, and no President until Donald Trump took decisive action. Ronald Reagan did get the captives back, but, alas, every president since Reagan tried diplomacy to bring Iran’s Islamic Republic into the world fold, completely ignoring that the Iranians were religiously driven, not by diplomacy but by what’s in the Quran. Today, by all appearances, Trump has put Iran on the ropes but they still cling to the Quran.
After that first fiasco in the desert, it became clear that ego-driven, single-service individualism could no longer work, so new concepts emerged to build new systems of cooperation as combined arms through cross-training in other service disciplines and by doing the needed missions efficiently, secretly, and with deadly precision. Thus, the world of Special Operations was born, a concept first introduced by the Green Berets and authorized by JFK during the Vietnam War. That was a big jump in military thinking. It forced the military services to abandon the old, proven concepts that won World War II, which were applied in Korea and later in Vietnam. Desert Storm proved that tanks still had value on the battlefield, but the costs of getting them there and using them were onerous to budget planners. And since then, tiny Ukraine has shown that armor is now vulnerable to even newer types of warfare, the deadly drones. War, secret or otherwise, cannot be conducted without the cooperative and combined input of the other branches.
Our involvement in Vietnam was to save French Colonialism, cloaked in the hope of preventing South-East Asian countries from falling to Communism, aka: the “domino effect.” Since then, Vietnam has become a commercial partner with the US and has grown far beyond French colonialism. They hate the Chinese but do business with them, and they are getting rich. The Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and Taiwan have grown economically despite the looming threat of a belligerent China. Kinetic war is very expensive, as the Russians are learning. Tanks occupy territory once taken, while trains, ships, and airplanes deliver supplies and resources. The idea of solving problems with tanks, ships, and airplanes has slowly evolved into a concept of war as economics, a concept Donald Trump understands implicitly.
Iran, having no ability to pursue its war against the West by sending tanks and airplanes to attack us, turned to their best alternative, terrorism. Like the sand of the deserts, they have hordes of unemployed young men looking for something to do, all indoctrinated by the Quran and willing and able to kill infidels. In the meantime, the Mullahs saw an opportunity to grow their power of intimidation by joining the world’s nuclear club.
That is the necessary war Donald Trump is now waging because no US President before him took the initiative to stop Iran’s attacks against us. Iran, no more than the Japanese of WWII, has a capability to deliver a kinetic war to America’s shores, but they were within weeks of having nuclear bombs and the missiles to deliver ‘em. That chapter is closed for a few more decades, but their soldiers are now in our country, thanks to Obama and Joe Biden. They are in our neighborhoods and, more troubling, advancing politically into our local, state, and federal governments, bringing their odious Islam with them. It’s not just Iran anymore; it’s every Islamic oil-producing country in the Middle East that is infiltrating our culture with money and Sharia Law. I remind readers that all but one of the 9/11 terrorists were from Saudi Arabia; that Qatar houses the Hamas leadership of Gaza, and Iran supported Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Americans are becoming very alarmed about the internal dangers Islam presents here. We’re under constant street attacks. China is a threat, of course, but like the other great powers, it is maintaining a vast military machine that is nearly unaffordable because of its own disastrous economic policies. China faces the same problems as all the others: why maintain a vast army without using it? China’s PLA Army/Navy and Air Forces, while appearing formidable, are untested in combat; leadership is limited by fear of political execution and corruption. They can see what Trump did to Iran. They have seen what Ukraine has done to Russia’s military machine, and they don’t really want to move ahead on Taiwan, yet! A new textbook required for students of future warfare and foreign policy should include Trump’s “The Art of the Deal!”
Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, get prepared. They’re here, and they hate us. (26Mar26)
This article originally appeared on Stand Up America US. Reprinted here with permission.
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