[Diogenesis]

How did Mullen and the others KNOW during the
attack that it ‘would all be over’ before
the could do anything?

How did they know BEFORE THE FACT?

[Chainmail]

And more importantly, why wasn't there a contingency plan in place and forces on standby? Pretty well SOP for any US installation on earth. Heck, we even had a defense plan for Johnston Island and that flyspeck is 700 miles away from anything.

The part the ARB and pretty much all the media seem to have left out was that this was an outpost way, way into the armpit of Islam. Who in their right minds doesn't have fighting forces at the ready in these locations?

So the question really is: who was responsible for failing to plan and why?