The March Tradition The Pentagon dusts off a target list the way others dust off spring clothes. #Iraq 2003. Libya 2011. Yemen 2015. #Iran 2026. Something about starting wars in March is just irresistible to Washington. A girls' school in Minab w...
...as struck in the opening hours. One news cycle of photographs, then the "broader strategic picture" takes over. It has always worked this way. The target list, investigators found, was a decade out of date. The school had been partitioned off from the IRGC base since 2016 — any updated imagery would have shown it. Hegseth had cut the Pentagon's civilian harm office by 90% before the first missile flew. March 2003. "Shock and Awe" over Baghdad. The plan: six weeks, a grateful nation, a bloo...
...as struck in the opening hours. One news cycle of photographs, then the "broader strategic picture" takes over. It has always worked this way. The target list, investigators found, was a decade out of date. The school had been partitioned off from the IRGC base since 2016 — any updated imagery would have shown it. Hegseth had cut the Pentagon's civilian harm office by 90% before the first missile flew. March 2003. "Shock and Awe" over Baghdad. The plan: six weeks, a grateful nation, a bloo...