Total Information Dominance … and we killed innocents.
According to Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., Head of the United States Central Command,
"We now assess that it is unlikely that the vehicle and those who died were associated with ISIS-K or a direct threat to US forces," McKenzie said of the airstrike at a briefing, following an investigation by the Military.
"This strike was taken in the earnest belief that it would prevent an imminent threat to our forces and the evacuees at the airport, but it was a mistake and I offer my sincere apology," Mckenzie said, adding that he is "fully responsible for this strike and this tragic outcome." (1)
Total information dominance and we can’t identify a legitimate target for a simple drone strike … but we’re basing our entire military future on exactly this kind of unreliable information warfare. This incident encapsulates everything wrong with the path the military is on.
This is the system we want to base our future military on? If we can’t get this right with total information dominance what chance do we have of beating China with ‘information’?
The administration was desperate for a public relations ‘victory’ in the Afghanistan debacle and murdered innocents trying to get it.
If McKenzie truly takes full responsibility, he should resign in disgrace and then be recalled to active duty to face a court-martial. Not because an innocent was killed in a war zone but because he went along with what he had to have known was a PR motivated, unjustified, rush to action.
This is reprehensible and disgusting.
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(1)Fox News website, “General says it is unlikely ISIS-K members killed in August Kabul drone strike: 'A tragic mistake'”, Kyle Morris, 17-Sep-2021,
