Exclusive: US military asks troops for ‘creative and unconventional’ ideas to punish Iran

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/politics/us-military-iran-war-troops-punish

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Zahille7@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 23d

I got one!

We just fucking leave them alone.

That seems fairly "unconventional" to me.

AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 24d (2 replies)

Send Donald Trump to be their Supreme Leader.

yogthos@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 24d

let's face it, only Americans would be dumb enough to allow Trump to be their supreme leader

Thrydwulf@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 23d

Dammit, beat me to it. ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 23d

have they tried not doing anything? that might actually work better than trying something

Bitflip@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 24d

Barricade their cities in a circle of data centers too.

BottleBoardBakon@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 24d

What's a war crime anyways?

Marthirial@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 24d (1 reply)

Sir, prompting Artificial Intelligence is not helping us win the war, Sir.

Did you try prompting just Intelligence, maggot?

PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 23d

Intelligence

asks troops

Nope

FluidBeef@quokk.au · 4 pts · 23d

Going to bed without supper.

eldavi@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 23d (5 replies)

i get the sinking feeling that this is going to work

yogthos@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 23d (4 replies)

I see no reason to assume that Iranians are dumber than Americans, especially given what we've seen up to now.

eldavi@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 23d (3 replies)

i don't know where this comes from and i was saying that the bigger variety of backgrounds and opinions always yields more ideas.

yogthos@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 23d (2 replies)

Right, but there is just as much of variety of ideas in Iran as well, and they've already proven themselves to be more capable and effective to date. To me, this just reeks of desperation where the US brass is acknowledging that they're completely out of ideas and now just throwing stuff at the board in hope something sticks.

eldavi@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 23d (1 reply)

definitely desperation and i'm dreading the fact that it has a better than average chance of working; out of millions of service members, someone is likely to have a workable idea.

yogthos@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 22d

And out of millions of Iranians, someone will figure out how to counter it. Also, this is where materialist analysis becomes important. Cleverness goes only so far in practice. What matters are the resources at hand and the logistics. And Iran has a firm advantage fighting on their home turf.