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Brian Mast: “To say that there is no strategy is absolutely a direct insult to our United States Armed Forces, all of our generals…”

On the recordMay 13, 2026
To say that there is no strategy is absolutely a direct insult to our United States Armed Forces, all of our generals, all of our colonels, all of our majors, all of our leaders working in tactical operations centers, the Pentagon, crunching data day in and day out, doing everything that they do to plan every single part of these operations: every time an aircraft takes off of a carrier; the targets that they are looking at; everything that they are looking to hit, when and in what order; what they have to hit before they go hit something further in the interior of Iran. It is an insult to our military to say that there is no strategy. It takes away from every bit of strategy that is going on.
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Brian Mast
Republican · Florida

Editor's note · Context

Defending the military's strategic planning in response to criticism during a floor speech.

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