This May 26 memo surely wasn't intended for Cooper's subordinates during a ceasefire. Was the real audience Trump & Hegseth, who'd threatened attacks on bridges, the electric grid, etc.? Was Cooper warning them he wouldn't obey or transmit such an order?
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"Our commitment to the law of armed conflict is not a constraint on our lethality," Adm. Brad Cooper, the CENTCOM head, wrote in a memo.