Because a resupply base was destroyed.

Saved you a click.

Old military saying, tactics win battles, logistics wins wars.

General Omar Bradley: Frequently credited with the variation, “Amateurs talk strategy and tactics. Professionals talk logistics.”

Hegseth is an amateur. This failure is his. He spent all his time attacking woke and not providing the logistical support needed to keep the troops in the field.

And no, i don’t agree with trumps attack on Iran. But this has been a cluster fuck that didn’t have to happen. Trump and Hegseth purged all the professionals and replaced them with sycophants.

US military bases across the Middle-East have been destroyed and are totally non-functionable.

The prospect of a sustained ground invasion, which was already a fucking moronic idea on the US's best day, is all but impossible now.

This war literally only happened and continues because Trump was allowed back in power, and he's a pedophile with loads of Epstein blackmail in the hands of Israel.

Are we great again yet?

We’re all waiting very patiently.

That would be treason under any other circumstances, before things went all trumpily weird.

Which moron doesn't protect their supply routes? It's the whole interdiction doctrine.

The episode of The Daily on this topic the other day was really good.

Why do they give him such flattering pictures? MAGA is loving such displays.

But how could the chlamydia pressy know that a mediocre, alcoholic, racist TV host would be bad at running the military?!

Knowing that this guy rubs his own snot in his hair, it should be forbidden to start any sentenced "Hegseth Covered". Or to show his picture.

How is this world news?

rather than fix it of course

Save you a click: they're winning the not-war so hard that the Navy supply chain got pushed back to a UK(!) naval base in the Indian Ocean.

The USS Abraham Lincoln wasn’t able to be resupplied because the U.S. Navy’s main resupply base in the Gulf of Oman was destroyed by Iranian strikes—a fact that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth chose not to make public, David Rhode, MS NOW’s senior national security reporter, said on Tuesday.

From late February until June, Iran launched extensive missile and drone strikes on Naval Support Activity Bahrain, causing devastating damage that was not acknowledged by the Pentagon.

The U.S. Navy was forced to evacuate most personnel, and move supply operations to a U.K. naval base on Diego Garcia, a tiny island in the Indian Ocean 2,200 miles from where two aircraft carrier groups have been operating in the Gulf of Oman.

not enough testosterone /s

I know the USA media talks about slights to their military like one promises candy to sad children.

But even in the more rational publications like this, there are lines the writers and editors dare not cross. And it shows.

Here is a war criminal who should be promptly arrested; and the whole article is how he lied about this one thing.

This man has uttered dozens, hundreds, over a thousand lies recorded in the public record; and is directly responsible for hundreds of murders and thousands of lesser war crimes