Trump Narrated U.S. Attacks in Real Time

“War planning is a delicate matter, one that can involve years of strategic thinking and many layers of expertise, as seasoned military commanders game out how they might hit their targets and achieve a goal so that a conflict won’t spiral out of control,” the New York Times reports.

“There is, of course, another way to run a war and attend to the corresponding statecraft: Just post through it.”

“This is, remarkably, what happened this afternoon, as President Trump used his personal social media website to tell the world that he saw an off-ramp to the United States’ intervention in Iran.”