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War in Iran, now spreading in the Middle East. Trump made a very poor decision, supported by no US analysis and instead relying on Biba’s emotional enthusiasm for decision support to start a war of choice. Hegseth has proven an inept SoD (or is it SoW) and endangered lives and treasure with his ideology driven resource choices. For example: firing senior officers, depleting weapon stocks, and politicizing the military. The Senate has abrogated its oversight responsibility, the exercise of which could have mitigated these serious damages to US defenses. Congress has abrogated its responsibility for being the branch of government bearing the obligation of declaring war. Washington Post: The top U.S. general in Europe privately warned the Pentagon this week that he lacks sufficient naval forces to continue protecting Israel from incoming ballistic missiles, officials said, illustrating how the ongoing Iran war has imposed constraints on the military. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, the head of U.S. European Command, sent written notification to senior Pentagon officials saying that without another Navy destroyer he will be forced to choose defense of the United States “homeland” over that of Israel, said the officials, who like some others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the correspondence.