We Celebrate the Safe Recovery of our airmen in Iran.
We have reason to be happy and proud that our military, intelligence and Washington leadership were able to work together and successfully rescue the two crew members of the aircraft in Iran. Cooperation between agencies is key, owning the battle space, key, having the technology and equipment to identify the “what-where-and when” of critical operations, all are key. We have expertly trained war fighters, trained technology professionals, and the best technology to enable our country to support keeping the peace at home and abroad. But when things go less than ideally, we have “SERE” training. SERE, briefly, is Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape. The training can be seen in movies and videos, so I will not go into further details.
What i am not especially happy about is the release of critical intelligence, plans and methods in carrying out the important process of operating in a dangerous environment, denied areas, war zones, and saving of lives.
The point being, when you tell your adversary how you do, what you do or did, what your plans are, they remember, they learn (one would think!) and can make plans should the next terrifying opportunity presents itself. You want your adversary to decide that the risk, vastly outweighs the “hoped for” reward.
We live, thank God, in a free society, and we demand transparency in our government and our government operations. While that can satisfy our citizens desire to know important issues of life and liberty, that also tends to translate into revealing our capabilities, methods and materials. We chose to let our citizens know, within limits, what we do and how we do it. And that is the key, both, good, and bad! We don’t want to have the threats and threat actors against us get more capable and be successful in combating and attacking us. We don’t want our adversaries to be able to bring death and destruction globally and potentially on American soil, and also friendly foreign soil.
We want to be strong and confident in our standing in the world.
When conversations and negotiations fall short we can know that peace can and should be maintained with strength when necessary…and with Faith!
Note: i have been away and working on other projects for some time now. Well, fear not…or clutch your pickle ball rackets, i am back. For anyone that accidentally came across my blog and web site, I truly a report on current affairs, national issues and what is happening in the broader world. I try to be balanced and factual in my posts and civil in my comments. Go back through the history of my posts. I’m not perfect…who is?! But perhaps we can see the common ground that is available to us all. Perhaps my perspective is not too extreme, not to misinformed, not so bias as to send you fleeing to shelter or to grab your picket signs and become an activist. It is all just my observations from experience.
Please enjoy!