COMBAT DEBUT OF JOINT AIR-TO-SURFACE STAND-OFF MISSILE: DID U.S. AIR FORCE LOSE HIGH TECH MISSILE IN SYRIA?
Written by Brian Kalman exclusively for SouthFront ; Brian Kalman is a management professional in the marine transportation industry. He was an officer in the US Navy for eleven years. Like so many others that watched the unfolding U.S.-led cruise missile strike on Syria in the early morning hours of April 14 th , I was amazed by the brazen and ill-conceived nature of such an undertaking. Not only was the attack not based on any verifiable intelligence proving a chemical attack by Syrian governmental forces, the given reason for the justification of the attack, but it was extremely ill-advised from any military or political stand point. Was it imperial hubris on the part of the “leadership” of the sole “exceptional” nation, or a simple matter of poor military decision making that resulted in the approval of the strike? A number of failures in executing the strike have come to light after the fact, not minor faults that have been magnified by Russian or Syrian government propagan