There's that one and "Tactics win battles, logistics wins wars".

It wasn't a joke. During the initial invasion of Afghanistan, one of the first pieces of infrastructure was a self-contained Burger King truck. Airdropped in on a C-130.

Even way back, one of the biggest things during the Pacific Theater in WWII was the fact that the US had three ships dedicated just to transporting frozen and refrigerated foods, so that the troops had fresh food. The ships colloquially became known as ice cream barges because they had the capability to make a ton of ice cream. The Americans in the Pacific were eating fresh meat and ice cream, while the Japanese soldiers were eating shitty rations. It was a major morale killer for the Imperial Japanese.

I'm not trying to be overly pedantic but we deploy Burger Kings from. AC-130s. Not Mc trash

(We actually do use C-17 Globemaster III cargo planes to deliver containerized burger kings though)

And we’ve seen all of it begin to unravel in only a few years, because the POTUS has surrounded himself by Yes Men instead of competent leaders.

POTUS can be impeached. The problem is either much bigger or it's a ploy.

It’s all been propaganda lies. The whole time. The US military has lost every single engagement since world war 2. Every single one.

They knew Bahrain was a problem and therefore moved operations to Diego Garcia, which is further away. Djibouti can be hit from Yemen, where the Iranian allied Houthis are after all. However then Diego Garcia was hit as well. They did not destroy too much, but the Navy moved logistics further away. However that would have pulled Lincoln out of combat range. Otherwise it would have to stay in place in range of Iranian missiles. Iran hitting an aircraft carrier would have been a massive issue.

So apparently they believed it was smarter to keep it in the fight, since Trump was going to end the war in a few days anyway since a few months now.

This is why the US used to avoid going to war with Iran. They knew it would turn into a shit show.

You're right, it's not Hegseths fault. It's his fault + all the Republicans enabling the destruction of america + all of the dumbest people in charge, who's only qualifying feature is making Trump richer.

That’s the thing. We have a base in Djibouti.

It’s a little farther and would have taken some of the focus off of AFRICOM, but would have been a regional base outside of Iran’s capability.

I agree that it's a fault with the process of military planning.

However, keep in mind that fascists etc. has the kind of leadership to ignore experts' advice, an even override their existing processes.

So while we don't actually know what exactly happened behind the scenes, it's not unlikely that Hegseth had, metaphorically, a team of military experts telling him not to charge straight into the front of the machine gun positions, but he still told them to do it "for glory". Or that this happened at a lower level, by "leaders" with the same mindset, that he put there.