Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius
RE: The Way of War of Our Enemies
In every hot war the United States has become involved in since the Korean War, we have enjoyed absolute tactical and operational dominance over our enemies. We win every tactical engagement, overwhelmingly. Operationally we can and do dominate any theater of our choosing. No one—and I mean NO ONE—can stand toe to toe with the US military.
This has been true for decades.
We’ve talked before about the elements of national power—the “DIME” (Diplomacy, Informational, Military, Economic).
Our military power is unsurpassed. We are masters of diplomacy. We have the world’s strongest economy.
So how do we lose? The INFORMATIONAL component.
Our military opponents, from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Ladin, knew that the only way to defeat the USA is to demoralize the American populace such that it demands withdrawal and throws the then current Commander-in-Chief out of office. The ONLY way to defeat America militarily is to convince the American people that a war is unwinnable.
The slow dribble of IED deaths in OIF was not actually targeting soldiers and Marines—it was targeting YOU, the American people. And CNN eagerly complied with death counts running across the bottom of the screen.
The Tet Offensive? It was a decisive US victory that could have ended the Vietnam War in our favor. But Walter Cronkite instead declared the war lost, protests erupted nationwide, and the war was lost.
The Highway of Death in Kuwait? We could have taken out Saddam Hussein in 1991 and never needed to go back in 2003, but international media made the attack on retreating Iraqis look “too cruel,” so we halted just short of the finish line.
The strategic imperative of every one of America’s military enemies is to break the will of the American people with skewed information, propaganda, and extreme emphasis on America’s minor losses amidst overwhelming military victory.
But the Ho Chi Minhs and Osama bin Ladins can’t do that by themselves. They need willing partners in the American media and government.
And for Operation Epic Fury, boy oh boy do the Iranian mullahs have an over abundance of American morale killers to draw from in order to defeat America through the informational instrument of national power.
Tucker Carlson.
Senator Mark Kelly and the rest of the Seditious Six.
CNN.
ABC.
NBC.
CBS.
NYT, WaPo.
Pakistani bot armies on social media.
X “influencers” like Cerno, Candace, MartyrMade and Ian Carroll.
Every idiot claiming we are fighting “Israel’s war."
There is an entire Army of American politicians and media figures who are willingly fighting Iran’s informational war on its behalf (and in some cases, at its behest).
America is DECISIVELY WINNING the war on Iran in every measurable respect.
Yet there are so many influential Americans who are desperately determined to make you believe otherwise.
In days of old in non-US countries, such people would have been strung up for treason.
Thankfully it’s 2026 and we have a First Amendment, so no one fear being treated in such a medieval manner. But we can still ostracize and ridicule such people and sources for the irreparable harm they are wreaking upon the USA as they do the bidding (intentionally or unintentionally) of Theo-fascist mullahs who are determined to set off a nuclear bomb so that the Twelfth Imam will arise from a well in Qom and precipitate the global apocalypse.
We all need to choose sides. Are you with America, or are you with theologic-inspired, deliberate Armageddon?
And anyone who chooses the latter needs to be the target of mockery, derision and clearly-stated facts disproving their lies.
And if YOU are an American Patriot, you can fight that informational war on America’s behalf, right now, right here on social media, right there in your own living room. Your voice matters, and your voice is actually a part of the war.
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT.
