Posted on 08/03/2026 6:53:40 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
The request from a senior officer at the US military command carrying out President Donald Trump’s war with Iran came in an email: We need ideas.
“We are looking for new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran,” an officer in US Central Command’s intelligence branch wrote in a message sent Wednesday to a broad group of military analysts, according to a source familiar with the message. A second source also said that a senior US military officer sent the message last week soliciting new ideas for how to deal with Iran.
The crowdsourcing-style query, which military officials said was unusual over email, is one sign of the limited — and potentially unpalatable —options available to Trump to force Iran into a deal on his terms. Hoping to find an alternative, the official at CENTCOM kicked off the brainstorming session via email to see if anyone had a better idea. The second source said CENTCOM is looking at everything, acknowledging it needs to reevaluate the strategy.
“U.S. Central Command has a long history of thinking and working in innovative ways,” Capt. Timothy Hawkins, a spokesperson for CENTCOM, said in a statement. “Admiral Cooper, in particular, reaches out to members of our great team, regardless of rank, to achieve the highest levels of operational performance possible.”
The email preceded Trump’s threat to launch new strikes against Iran, only to call them off over the weekend weekend after regional officials — namely Saudi Arabia’s crown prince — intervened by calling the president and urging him to de-escalate.
For weeks, the US has hammered Iran with air strikes designed to degrade its ability to threaten shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and to bring Tehran back to the negotiating table, but there’s still no sign of a deal.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Dear FRiends,
We need your continuing support to keep FR funded. Your donations are our sole source of funding. No sugar daddies, no advertisers, no paid memberships, no commercial sales, no gimmicks, no tax subsidies. No spam, no pop-ups, no ad trackers.
If you enjoy using FR and agree it's a worthwhile endeavor, please consider making a contribution today:
Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you,
Jim
My two cents? STOP dealing with Pakistan - they make Iran look like innocent honest brokers in comparison.
This request is more likely than not....looking for a certain type of input....not necessarily answering the request.
Brilliant!! The best ideas come from the troops in the trenches. I just hope the good ideas don’t have to filter up through endless review boards.
Bomb the mosques with pork products
If we could win wars with ‘little blue pills’ they wouldn’t need to ask that question.
Those pills are increasingly needed and resorted to because masturbation leads to impotence.
The Chinese military identified masturbation among its recruits as a problem more than a decade ago.
This nation is impotent literally and figurately at this moment it appears.
“Admiral Cooper, in particular, reaches out to members of our great team, regardless of rank, to achieve the highest levels of operational performance possible.” You’re going to be a general someday Gump.
First, we need to get a DeLorean....
Send a former manager and nuclear grade idiot of mine to manage their IT infrastructure.
Everything would grind to a halt in a week.
When I was an MI agent many years ago, leadership asked for ways to uncover potential threats against the army. I wrote t go to the voter registration and locate all those registered as dem. Your list will be almost complete with some of the names there.
I was told that was not going forward!!
Funny, as Iran has already sent people to America to set up shop to punish us with mosques all over our country as they set up shop and enter into political positions.
They can sit back and wait.
Throwing them out of America would be a novel idea.
We have zero responsibility to deport them to the country they claim to be from.
I have a better idea.
Let us defeat them.
Do you think the IRGC would fall for the pager trick?
The best managers I ever had would not only ask for input but would actually take it under advisement and implement it if it made sense....so the only problem I see here is ANYONE suggesting it is a problem to throw shade on the Sec of War and POTUS.
Anyone doing that is pretty much lower than dog excrement wouldn’t you agree?
How about the US Military try something that they have forgotten.
BOMB THEM BACK TO THE STONE AGE!
F feelings, F the people, F everything about Iran!
Stop fighting wars and worrying about emotions US Military, Amy C Barret version of how to lose wars.
drop millions of leaflets. Good, old-fashioned, low-tech leaflets
The regime has shut down the internet and leaflets cost almost nothing.
Trump and allies should set up a program where the Strait must remain open and the cost of ANY AND ALL damages* inflicted upon shipping by Iran will be 100% covered by IRANIAN IMPOUNDED FUNDS. This would stiffen the spines of the shipping insurers and reinsurers. And IRANIANS UNDERSTAND MONEY, do not want to lose it and will punish (i.e., kill) those who cause the loss. And the ones causing the loss are the IRGC.
I’m posting this in every thread where the absence of such MONETARY DAMAGES ASSESSMENT is partially responsible for the situation.
And, yes, we could both bomb Iran (and/or take other actions) and do this at the same time.
* “ALL damages” INCLUDES the cost of cargo, the cost to repair/replace the ship, the “opportunity cost” (revenues/profits the ship could have made during the time the ship is out of action), losses suffered by the crew members (and.or their families) who are injured or killed
*************************************************
OK… NOW IS THE TIME to actually hold Iran FINANCIALLY RESPONSIBLE for this action of theirs. The Iranians attacked at least one ship since President Trump said he would do that. SO DO IT!
This is worse than an abusive relationship. In modt cases the abuser says that they will stop the destructive behavior, In the case, the US military doesn’t even know how to fight a war.
Load 12” metal tubes with handguns and rifles and drop them from B-52s all over near populated regions to arm civlians, then just wait for the uprisings and assist them with drones and F-35s.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.