Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dropped the fog-of-war excuse when talking about a deadly Caribbean boat strike that killed 11 people back in September, claiming he bailed from the control room after the first hit and missed seeing survivors before a second strike took them out. The whole thing has lawmakers asking if American military brass committed war crimes by ordering that follow-up attack on people clinging to wreckage.
Military experts are basically calling BS on using fog-of-war as cover since the phrase describes imperfect battlefield info from a Prussian general's old writings about Napoleon-era combat. They point out that professional militaries have ways to cut through uncertainty, and citing foggy conditions raises bigger questions about how anyone knew the boat was actually threatening enough to engage twice.
Military experts are basically calling BS on using fog-of-war as cover since the phrase describes imperfect battlefield info from a Prussian general's old writings about Napoleon-era combat. They point out that professional militaries have ways to cut through uncertainty, and citing foggy conditions raises bigger questions about how anyone knew the boat was actually threatening enough to engage twice.
