AN OPEN ASSESSMENT
OF THE ILLICIT IRAN WAR
Submitted by Anonymous Group of Retired & Active U.S. Military General/Flag Officers
SOTN Exclusive
It’s of paramount importance for the reader to understand the military context in which the following group assessment has been made and written here.
Regional headquarters, military bases, specialized installations and naval assets of U.S. Armed Forces have never sustained so much irreparable damage by an enemy in any theater of war in American history, and particularly in a war that has not been lawfully declared by the U.S. Congress.
The following satellite imagery depicts the massive amount of damage to US military assets in the aftermath of Iranian attacks.
In point of fact, the widespread destruction caused by the US-Israel war against Iran has essentially removed and/or rendered incapacitated virtually every major base in the Middle East. And those that have not yet been destroyed are an Iranian drone wave and/or missile barrage away from total devastation. The Trump administration is fully aware of this new normal. And Israel knows that it would be far too expensive to replace some of the most cutting-edge radar systems in the world.
Ultimately it is the U.S. Commander-in-Chief who is fully responsible for the command decisions that brought about this unprecedented neutralization of the most powerful military in the world. Truly, the Strait of Hormuz military miscalculations and subsequent fiascos are very similar in effect to what the 1956 Suez Crisis was to the British Empire… only much worse in its far-reaching ramifications.
What makes this ongoing debacle so painful for us to watch is that President Trump refuses to seek the sage counsel of the most knowledgable and experienced general and flag officers in the various services today. Conversely, he is relying heavily on extremely political advisors whose loyalties lie with the Zionist state of Israel, and who are tragically insensitive toward the United States of America.
As if to add insult to injury, the POTUS and his Department of War appointees have failed to acknowledge the great loss of life and serious injuries of those trusting American service members who have been killed and severely wounded in the Mideast theater of war since the first Iran War in June 2025 also known as the Twelve-Day War. All told, there have been thousands of unreported casualties. This grim reality, in and of itself, constitutes a profound betrayal of the services as well as reflects an extraordinarily reckless and brazen series of deceits perpetrated upon the American people.
Every flag officer, general officer and O-6 colonel in the region is fully cognizant that the accurate casualty numbers have been intentionally withheld because Israel is determined to goad/coerce/trick Trump into ordering a full-scale ground invasion of Iran to ultimately carry out a regime change in Tehran. Hence, the false exceedingly low numbers of reported deaths/injuries is kept to an absolute minimum so as not to distress the American body politic who would otherwise demand a speedy end to this patently illicit war.
That the Netanyahu junta is actually in charge of this unprovoked war of aggression indicates that American blood and treasure has been expended for a foreign nation which is actually much more foe than friend. This state of affairs smacks of HIGH TREASON. Truly, Trump should have been frogmarched out of the Oval Office many months ago and tried for treason. And sentenced for the highest degree of HIGH TREASON which means life imprisonment or capital punishment. [SOTN Ed. Note: Trump needs to be removed from office ‘immediately’ — Tucker Carlson]
Not only do the military and police actions of Israel in the aggregate clearly indicate that the Iran War was started as a means for the IDF and Mossad to considerably advance the Greater Israel project across the Levant, their never-ending provocations and stealthy manipulation of Trump (via Epsteingate evidence) reveals Israel’s dastardly plot to both destroy America’s military throughout the Middle East in order to push the U.S. presence out of the region altogether, but only after Iran has been effectively conquered by US troops ordered into a meat grinder of a war zone.
All of the major military decisions made by President Trump, and this is why this open assessment is being disseminated today, have been disastrous in one way or another for the U.S. Armed Forces, the U.S. Federal Government and the American people. For example, US citizens will never again be able to travel anywhere in the Mideast after so much ill will has been generated by the horribly corrupt and downright sinister Trump administration. What else could be expected when the easily compromised Trump is joined at the hip with genocidal war criminal Netanyahu. For they are both now world infamous for their numerous crimes against humanity as they are notorious well known as a nonstop war crimes duo.
As a diverse group of flag officers, general officers and full-bird colonels, we are especially disturbed by the empowerment of the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to make and carry out highly political decisions which have seen the firings, forced resignations and coerced retirements of some of the finest senior officers in the Armed Services today. Honestly, we are mortified by the disrespectful manner and false justifications given by Hegseth and his ZOG henchmen for scornfully terminating these officers who are responsibly rendering truthful and non-biased consultation on major military matters. For instance, just this week the following DOD action was misguidedly carried out after a spate of similar catastrophic personnel changes were forced upon those senior officers who are decidedly America First, and NOT Israel First.
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigned this week on August 31, 2026, following months of tension with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth over the ouster of top military brass.
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- The Resignation: Dan Driscoll stepped down as the Army’s top civilian leader after raising concerns with the White House about Hegseth’s chaotic removal of experienced military commanders.
- Prior Firings: While Driscoll resigned rather than being directly fired this week, his departure follows a broader purge by Hegseth, which included the April firing of Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George and the ousting or sidelining of over two dozen senior military officers.
- Current Status: Driscoll’s exit leaves the Army without any Senate-confirmed civilian or top military leadership in place
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Special Note: As this assessment is being posted on specially selected Alt Media websites, this latest and very concerning development is occurring as we write: Sept 1: 11:20 PM EDT — US Attacking Iran again – Iran RETURNING FIRE!
Really, who is making these highly consequential and now predictably calamitous military decisions—Trump or Netanyahu, the Knesset or Zionist-controlled Military Industrial Complex?
After all, every time the U.S. launches an attack against Iran, the IRGC responds by wiping out even more American military assets which are quite easily destroyed by their highly advanced ballistic missiles and sophisticated drone weaponry.
In fact, it’s now a commonly held belief by the Officer Corps in all the U.S. Armed Forces that Israel is deliberately encouraging these highly provocative attacks by Trump’s Department of War with the explicit intention of triggering a reaction that will completely decimate all US military capability in the region so that the Netanyahu junta can prosecute their Greater Israel wars across the region — unimpeded — should a future unsympathetic administration be seated in Washington, D.C.
Of course, the hardcore Zionists in Tel Aviv are also very happy to see so many of their Muslim neighbors attacked, further weakening them all militarily and exposing them as heavily armed paper tigers who were cavalierly abandoned by the United States in their moment of greatest need.
Just a recap: never in U.S. history has a POTUS so conspicuously cavorted with the enemy — Israel — as Team Trump has. Starting a potentially apocalyptic wars after appointing a dangerously inexperienced FOX news reporter, who is also a fanatical Christian Zionist with a perilous “Crusade mentality”, as the United States Secretary of Defense pushed many senior officers over the top regarding their mostly silent opposition to this Iran War of naked conquest.
All of us now know that Trump is running an predacious international crime syndicate and increasingly brash ZOG that desperately covets Iran’s extremely geostrategic location, all of their oil and gas reserves, as well as the goal of forever eliminating the Muslim resistance in Tehran to the devastating and genocidal Greater Israel project.
ZOG = Zionist Occupied Government
***All of us are well aware of the fact that virtually the entire Zionist-occupied U.S. Congress has been captured by the Israeli lobby via AIPAC campaign bribery, Epstein blackmail evidence and an assortment of other devious tactics that Israel has employed since its founding to completely control the US government. We are also broadly informed about the extensive spying and surveillance regime that the entire U.S. Armed Forces is subjected to 24/7 by Unit 8200—the Israeli Intelligence Corps unit of the Israel Defense Forces. Therefore, we felt we had no choice but to float this “Open Assessment” in the most effective but self-protective way possible, which we have done. Please, for the sake of the Republic, distribute this post far and wide—thank you!
Should the reader doubt even a single word in this “Open Assessment”, all they have to do is watch every single move and maneuver by the US military in the Middle East going forward, after objectively analyzing the actual outcomes of the Trump-Netanyahu war campaign since February 28, 2026.
There’s an old but relatively unknown acronym in the Officer Corps that reads like this: WIDIWIS. It has never been so relevant in describing Trump’s seemingly chaotic and self-destructive war strategy and treacherous purposes—What It Does Is What It Is.
By a large and solid consensus (excepting the Christian Zionist and Jewish Zionist senior officers), a great majority of “General & Flag Officers” now view the assembled US military forces throughout the Middle East as nothing but Israel’s cat’s paw as the ZOG inside the Beltway ruthlessly sacrifices brave Americans in the flower of youth for a highly misguided and hazardous Israeli cause having absolutely nothing to do with American interests.
Again, this stark reality constitutes nothing less than transparent treason knowingly committed against the American Republic which demands Trump’s immediate removal from office, after the appropriate political prosecution by the U.S. Congress via impeachment and criminal prosecution by federal prosecutors within the U.S. Department of Justice.
It also demands the immediate removal of every elected representative and government official such as Hegseth who are proven co-conspirators in this perfidious enterprise designed to profoundly weaken and degrade the U.S Armed Forces. For it has also become apparent that this “war of choice” was purposefully undertaken to expose the American people in an unprepared manner to the military might of those aggrieved nations who may wish to do harm to the United States of America.
Quite sadly, many of those terribly victimized, repeatedly wronged and understandably disgruntled countries have full justification for seeking such retribution against the USA.
Special Note: Because of the abiding vindictiveness of Trump’s entire cabinet, we officers took the very serious decision to remain anonymous as possible knowing it would substantially dilute the power of this important message to the American people. For if folks really knew just how wickedly vengeful a ZOG can be, they would understand that this was not an act of cowardice on our part; rather, that it was the only self-preserving option that we all had (just read the Old Testament for further illumination of this matter). We very much appreciate your understanding.
Anonymous Group of Retired & Active U.S. Military General/Flag Officers
State of the Nation
September 1, 2026
SOTN Editor’s Note
This preceding assessment by top military brass dovetails perfectly with a previous release of privileged information/data by an active duty U.S. Navy flag officer whistleblower as follows:
U.S. Military Flag Officer Reveals
Highly Classified Iran War Secrets