Looks like the war with Iran is cooking off

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First off, an X post is not an order - it's just more bluster and bullshit meant for public consumption, not in the chain of command. I've seen no confirmation that any "no quarters" orders have actually been given. The military does not take it's orders from X posts.

With that said, I personally would not give any quarter, with or without an order. An enemy enters my sight picture, BANG! that enemy is no more. Pretty simple. I don't need orders to figure out the goal of war is to kill off the enemy until he stops whatever it is he's doing that I find objectionable.

Also, there has been a post from Trump that actually gives quarter, although it too is not a bona fide order. The post gives quarter by allowing the enemy to flee the battlefield to Masshad, where they will not, and have not been, struck. So, the CiC has countermanded Hegseth regarding quarter, at least as far as X bluster goes.

Now, in a strange twist, Masshad is actually in the Khorasan area, and Khorasan is nominally under ISIS control... and ISIS don't much care for the "takfir" Islamic regime in Tehran, so it remains to be seen just how that will play out.
 I suspect that it will eventually result in a race between ISIS and the Iranian People to finish off the regime once they are concentrated in Masshad.

So, yeah, this is just more smoke and mirrors being fed out into the propagandasphere. Like Hegseths alleged "war on Catholics", it's just a lot of obscuring smoke where there is no actual fire.

Disclaimer: I am not a JAG officer. I would not BE a JAG officer even if ever given the chance. I would avoid JAG officers like the plague. A JAG officer is a lawyer, and like most lawyers and all prosecuting attorneys, their entire reason for existence is to put a person behind bars regardless of guilt or innocence. Lawyers do not deal in "Truth", they deal in whatever argument is most likely to succeed in their chosen goal.

Yes, the propaganda machines are running overtime, 

That's what happens now in wars,we are bombarded with true and false narratives from around the world instantly. 

Hell followed Desert Storm and Desert Shield on Prodigy and Compuserve boards, even AOL, 
IIRC got in an argument because my source was too conservative, US News and World Report... 

LOL took forever to download a little nugget of info.

Discord Reddit X.com are flooded with information overload 

Faytuks Δ [NEWS], NEWSOwner — 9:01 PMFriday, March 13, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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Im appreciative as hell RN is here, enjoying the in-depth new and different points of view and helping sort through it all

learned some new stuff in this thread...


 

Which is the whole point of message board discussions...

 
 Debut was in 1979, the same year of the 
             Iranian Hostage Crisis.