David Marcus: Easter Rescue Pilots Reveals What the War Department Means

On Easter Sunday, our army withdrew from A A daring rescue operation for a downed pilot Behind enemy lines, and what I once again made clear is that Trump’s War Department is run by soldiers, not experts, and the results have been astonishing.

As Minister of War and former front-line veteran Pete Hegseth As he has repeatedly said, the Pentagon will focus on “maximum lethality, not tepid legality.”

In other words, what is the point of having the largest, most dangerous, and most powerful army in the world if every bad actor around the world knows that America is powerless to use it?

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Even now, when you compare the astonishing success of our military operations in Venezuela, as well as the shock and horror throughout Iran, with Joe Biden’s astonishingly stupid and tragic actions. Afghanistan withdrawalThe difference is not limited to night and day only, and is not limited only to winning and losing, but rather to life and death.

Secretary Pete Hegseth understands, instinctively as a soldier, that the best way to avoid endless wars is to win them quickly, decisively, and, as President Trump said, unconditionally.

Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has essentially assumed that it can easily win any protracted military confrontation, so the question has often been about winning peace, not winning wars.

This has always meant being less aggressive and using less fighting power in hopes of not creating more people around the world who hate America, but Pete Hegseth realizes that is not his job.

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Hegseth’s position is that when the bell rings, so do we Hit our enemies Like a young Mike Tyson until the bell rings again; We are not delaying them for a few rounds to put on a good show for NATO and the United Nations.

The other thing Hegseth understands instinctively as a soldier is that the best way to avoid endless wars is to win them quickly, decisively and, as President Trump said, unconditionally.

This willingness to use extreme measures is something that should give Iran’s leadership — those still breathing, anyway — plenty of pause as we approach Tuesday’s 8 p.m. deadline. Iran surrenders Or face total destruction.

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On Sunday, Trump wrote on Truth Social, “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all in one day, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F—-‘ Strait, you lunatic, or you’ll live in hell – just watch! Thank God. President Donald Trump.”

Liberals across the country screamed in anguish and called for Trump’s removal, claiming that attacking infrastructure is a war crime, even though attacking infrastructure — or, if you want to get fancy, “disrupting the enemy’s interior lines” — is as normal in war as chipping in golf.

Carl von Clausewitz was an early 19th century Prussian officer whose book On War is considered the birth of modern military tactics. He wrote this about what it means to defeat your enemy:

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“What do we mean by defeating an enemy? Simply destroying his forces, whether by killing, wounding, or by any other means—either completely or sufficiently to cause him to stop fighting.”

This is Hegseth’s style of war, soldier first, expert last; It is not an eternally uphill battle in which diplomatic card houses are carefully constructed. It is not an approach that would allow Iran to seize and humiliate our naval forces, as happened under his watch Barack Obama.

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No, under the Hegseth war administration, our fallen soldier this week was not traded; He was The army saved him Which blew up everyone who tried to get in its way.

No wonder Recruitment and morale rise. The young men and women who join the army under this Ministry of War know that they are neither diplomatic pawns nor guinea pigs in vigilant social engineering experiments; They are warriors.

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Whatever the final outcome in Iran, one thing is certain: no country on Earth, or any enemy, can assume, as it did under the Defense Department, that the US military will simply respond without striking any.

After decades of civilian experts and moderate generals giving America a kinder, kinder military, wars are back, and whether the United States is loved around the world or not, it will certainly be feared.

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