How the U.S. Planned and Executed the Tomahawk Strike Against Syria

[Peter1469]

How the U.S. Planned and Executed the Tomahawk Strike Against Syria

An interesting article for those who like the military planning involved in strikes like this.

The following is a timeline of the April 4 attack and the decision process of U.S. leaders leading up to Thursday’s strike.The Strike

• “Shortly after the attack, the following day on the fifth, the president directed the Secretary of Defense to come up with military options in response to this attack,” a senior defense official told reporters this morning at the Pentagon. “We came up with military options on the 5th; those options were basically put together into recommendations. It went forward to the National Security Council, multiple meetings with not only the presidential senior advisors but also with the Chairman, the Vice Chairman, the Secretary of Defense. Interagency members deliberated, looked at the proposals on the 5th, and then on the 6th of April those proposals were presented to the president.”

• The official said that all the options presented to President Donald Trump were also sent to U.S. Central Command, and to destroyers USS Porter (DDG-78) and USS Ross (DDG-71), to begin preparing for any potential decision.

• “During that planning period, all the forces, in this case the two ships, had basically options, and then all they had to do was, we just had to tell them the presidential-picked option. And that helps speed up that execution,” the official said. “We prepositioned forces so that if there was an order received we could have that quick response. … So by the time the options were given to the president, we were in position to execute upon order. And so when the order was given and passed along to the commander, forces were in position in order to launch the missiles.”

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[Casper]

How the U.S. Planned and Executed the Tomahawk Strike Against Syria

An interesting article for those who like the military planning involved in strikes like this.



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From here it does not seem like all that much planning was truly involved, yes there are logistics but that is just the nature of the game. I am still trying to figure out the actual purpose other than to appeal to a specific sector, otherwise it seemed pretty pointless and ineffectual.

[Peter1469]

From here it does not seem like all that much planning was truly involved, yes there are logistics but that is just the nature of the game. I am still trying to figure out the actual purpose other than to appeal to a specific sector, otherwise it seemed pretty pointless and ineffectual.

I suppose it was a forcefully way to say stop gassing the civilians.

[DGUtley]

From here it does not seem like all that much planning was truly involved, yes there are logistics but that is just the nature of the game. I am still trying to figure out the actual purpose other than to appeal to a specific sector, otherwise it seemed pretty pointless and ineffectual.

i think it was a message to Syrians: "We know it, stop it."

I think it hurt Trump in his base. He ran on the opposite notion but sometime when you are the man on the seat the perspective is different?

[MisterVeritis]

How the U.S. Planned and Executed the Tomahawk Strike Against Syria
An interesting article for those who like the military planning involved in strikes like this.
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It is a shame the wisdom of the attack was not similarly investigated and discussed.

[MisterVeritis]

i think it was a message to Syrians: "We know it, stop it."

I think it hurt Trump in his base. He ran on the opposite notion but sometime when you are the man on the seat the perspective is different?

I am no longer a Trump supporter. Consider that.