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Hi, I'm Ben Parker from the bulwark. And hi, I'm Mark Hurtling, retired lieutenant general, also from the bulwark, and we're here

with command post this morning, a special edition live.

A special edition live.

We were originally going to record this and put it out tomorrow, but then the president

decided that he's making a major address tonight, and it seems like it's going to be about some combination of Iran and NATO.

So we thought we better preview that and talk through first the context of why he might be making a major address today.

And then what it all means, because things are looking a little sporty, aren't they, general?

Yeah, that's the word I would use, as I've used so many other times before.

It is a bit sporty because I think, you know, it's fascinating how we went through the weekend

with a lot of projections about what might happen in terms of combat come Monday morning.

And what actually occurred was sort of a drawback.

And I'm hoping against hope that some of the advisors

finally persuaded him that any kind of combat operations

that was so rapidly and hastily planned for an invasion of a country that is so complex and so large

with a relatively small number of U.S. forces, ground forces, and not a whole lot of emphasis on

preliminary planning and what comes next. Hopefully hopefully had dissuaded him from actually

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