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.
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That’s the part of this action thats missing! At least its not obvious which you would think it would be by now if a planned/supplied insurgency was part of the original plan. I hope the “success” in Venezuela didn’t unduly influence this action!
“BOMB THEM BACK TO THE STONE AGE!”
Give the populous one month to get out of the country then take out every bit of infastructure, oil producing, and every harbor in the country. And let their supporting countries know if they try to intervene, they get the same thing. So even if they come back, it will be “to what?”
wy69
New ways? Muir Redwoods reminded me of an Old Way when he said “Begin spraying Iranian military sites and farmlands with liquefied pig fat.”
During the Philippines conflict Gen. Jack Pershing had troops equipped with the Army’s then-new high caliber pistol (M1911) and instructed them to lube rounds with pig fat so as to horrify drugged-up Muslim fanatics not killed outright.
Enemy bodies were to be sewed up and buried in pig carcasses for emphasis.
It worked.
Iran is in the middle of a historic, mostly self-inflicted, water shortage. Stress that system hard. Blow up dams, municipal water facilities, any above-ground water lines we can find. Break them with thirst.
They should study how the Moro rebellion in the Philippines was stopped.
A quote from Wikipedia:
[The] juramentado attacks were materially reduced in number by a practice the army had already adopted, one that the Mohammadans held in abhorrence. The bodies were publicly buried in the same grave with a dead pig. It was not pleasant to have to take such measures, but the prospect of going to hell instead of heaven sometimes deterred the would-be assassins.
Air drop millions of small arms. Cheaper by the dead head-to-be than missiles,
bombs or drones. Let the goods guys do the job. Once the bad guys are dead
they will arrange some sort of order.
how about arm the opposition. you can buy a lot of small arms for the cost of one bunker buster
Iranians started printing US$100 bills many years ago, flooding Europe, etc., such that few would take the real thing.
I have argued the attack on water for months. It is the quickest way to really bomb Iran back to the Stone Age.
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