President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth have adopted a rather blunt new communications strategy when it comes to U.S. operations against Iran: we are going to tell you exactly what we are going to do, and there is nothing you can do to stop us.On Thursday morning, Trump said, “The United States will be hitting Iran (Whose Navy, Air Force, Radar, Anti Aircraft, and all other forms of Defense, together with most of its offensive capability, are GONE!), VERY HARD TONIGHT,” and he did the same thing on Wednesday, prior to U.S. strikes.Telegraphing impending operations is a rarity for the U.S. military, which goes to extraordinary lengths to hide operational details to ensure the safety of those carrying them out. Just this week, an Iranian drone hit a U.S. Army Apache helicopter, though both operators are in stable condition and were rescued about two hours after going down.
Both the president and secretary did the same thing on Wednesday.
“Central Command will be busy tonight because President Trump said we will be hitting Iran hard, and we will be,” Hegseth said. “They’ve been ‘tap, tap, tapping’ on the deal. Instead, they’re gonna have tap, tap, tap bombs dropping on key facilities in Iran from the United States of America!”
