Is this always how military commanders talk to troops, regardless of an open state of war?

Magnus ItlandDecember 23, 2017 at 2:34 PM
"There's a war coming" seems like an extremely safe prediction for a US military commander. The more so under a Republican president. (I am told Gerald Ford did not start any new wars. Good on him.)

That said, this was a remarkable (and possibly deliberate) lack of tact given the location. The Putin government uses the danger of a NATO attack to prop up internal support after their politics have failed to improve the life of the common worker. These statements are going to be all over Russian media. Norway isn't going to be super happy about being used in this way.
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F-L SilverDecember 23, 2017 at 3:26 PM
Much of that was my thought? I mean, I really don't know how commanders talk to their troops when not at war, but this certainly sounds like somebody getting awfully close to declaring war. If they're playing chicken, this is a bad way to do that.
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