operation just cause - /k/

Anonymous09/20/26, 08:55No.65525200Operation Just Cause

What went so riyght? Why haven't we been able to replicate its success in the 30 years since?

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Anon09/20/26, 08:58No.65525203

Why did they do it? Just 'cause?

Anon09/20/26, 09:07No.65525210

super close to home, tiny country, also the gov that came afterwards had actually won the election but had it stolen from them by noriega, also panama doesn't have any real international ambitions or significant capabilities

Anon09/20/26, 10:22No.65525310

I'm not saying juggalos shouldn't be allowed to join the army, but should they really be allowed to wear the facepaint when they're on duty?

Anon09/20/26, 11:46No.65525412

>shoot some commie browns in the face >immediately win >fuck some latinas >aura farm with 80s gear They were basically on vacation.

Anon09/20/26, 12:48No.65525495

A strong goal, a weak enemy, and a local population that wasn't prone to chimping out.

Anon09/20/26, 16:27No.65525856

It was a invasion on their own doorstep against an unpopular dicator with a poorly trained microscopic army with no allies.Just how could it have gone wrong unless Hegseth and Krasnov were in charge?

Anon09/20/26, 23:37No.65526835

>Why haven't we been able to replicate its success in the 30 years since? Because all the Nam officers retired so that whole "we learned our lessons from Vietnam" shit got thrown out the window.

Anon09/20/26, 23:46No.65526848

>Why haven't we been able to replicate its success in the 30 years since? incompatible political objectives

Anon09/21/26, 05:50No.65527616

Latinos are the only browns who can't fight.

Anon09/21/26, 13:33No.65528208

I wonder why the Dignity Battalions didn’t put up a bit more of a fight?

Anon09/21/26, 19:33No.65528945

Repeat? We’ve already surpassed it Maduro took 2 hours.

Anon09/21/26, 19:58No.65529002

Because unlike most US military operations, it actually had an properly achievable political goal. Pizzaface’s faction lost elections (because they failed to rig it, kek), and then you got a series of chimpouts giving a perfect casus belli >Pizzaface sent goons to beat up the real president >Pizzaface’s goons shot an US serviceman >Pizzaface’s assembly voted to declare a state of war on US …and the entire regime had no military to speak of, only goons fit for intimidating civilians. So, the operation had majority support from Panamian citizens, and instead of needing to fit a square peg into a round hole, they just needed to remove Pizzaface and things worked out on their own weight.Not that I would shit on the military side of the operation, especially the hostage rescues conducted as part of it were genuinely excelletly done, but the point is that it was a politically resolvable situation with no risk of becoming a mess with no way out.

Anon09/22/26, 09:10No.65530465

>Panama Very small country. Population was largely against Noriega anyway. We immediately worked with ex-Noriega forces when the fighting stopped, giving them no reason to resist us further. >Afghanistan Medium sized country. Our "ally" Pakistan harbored and supported an insurgency against us. We set up a new, completely corrupt government that perpetrated bacha bazi and ran what was effectively an army of ghost soldiers. >Iraq Medium sized country. CPA Order Number 1 gave about 1/3rd of the population no future (including the entire armed forces), and CPA Order Number 2 took away their only means of protection, giving them no option but to resist us further and with more resolve than they had before.

Anon09/22/26, 10:31No.65530569

They sent their best.

Anon09/22/26, 12:42No.65530764

A lot of things went right but also a lot of things did in fact go wrong just nothing that compromised the mission and certainly not Grenada tier.

Anon09/22/26, 15:04No.65531017

>They fought back as best as could have realistically been expected of them without going full innajungle and fighting a guerilla war That was the plan but things moved too fast and the mountain base was surrendered by its commander who handed over the general in charge of the guerilla war too.

Anon09/22/26, 15:11No.65531025

>Probably meant to be a shotgun like on the LeMat No, well possibly but I don't think so.picrel was JC1, it came back for JC2 where it was meant to be a 30mm under-barrel grenade launcher and there's promo art of it that shows the grenade alongside a standard bullet but the launcher remained cosmetic, the function probably got cut before release, like several things that didn't make it into the game. It was a pre-order bonus item which resulted in some pretty upset fans.

Anon09/22/26, 19:15No.65531481

How fucking evil is it that 21 American servicemen were sent to die to liberate Jeb Bush's sex tapes.

Anon09/22/26, 23:33No.65532058

Retards either think every plausible deniability situation is how the government says it is, or thinks that none of them are. The only intelligent way of handling something like that is to acknowledge that there's a small but not miniscule chance he did get offed, and to move on with your day

Anon09/22/26, 23:45No.65532086

What about Venezuela?

Anon09/23/26, 03:16No.65532512

>There's an argument to be made that if you're the aggressor in the conflict, every kill is a murder. What a child.

Anon09/23/26, 03:24No.65532536

>murder That word doesn't mean what you think it means.

Anon09/23/26, 03:32No.65532558

Nope. You dumb asses are always using words you don't know the meaning of...

Anon09/23/26, 03:44No.65532581

And it's wrong.

Anon09/23/26, 03:46No.65532587

"Legalize drugs and murder." -Manuel Noriega

Anon09/23/26, 03:50No.65532588

It's not MY definition, it is the legal definition, and that legal definition includes a very specific criteria required to qualify an act as "murder". Your definition lacks that criteria. You figure it out, kid.

Anon09/23/26, 04:00No.65532606

Yea? Now look up malice aforethought. THAT is the criteria required to charge and convict someone of murder. Civilians that get killed in combat environments are overwhelmingly killed WITHOUT malice aforethought, hence, they are not "murdered". Those that ARE killed with malice aforethought are actually charged, and we've seen that in practically every long term conflict.If soldiers could simply murder indiscriminately, then these wars and engagements wouldn't last longer than a month, as we'd just carpet bomb and burn down the high population centers. We don't do that though, do we? No. We don't.

Anon09/23/26, 04:11No.65532630

>Choosing to illegally invade a country is malice aforethought. Nope. Soldiers engage in combat operations due to duty and law, not out of malice. That's why the laws of land warfare clearly define what lawful and unlawful combatants are, and what is and is not a legitimate military target. That's why combatants are afforded P.O.W. status rather than just being tried for "murder" when captured.You really are just a child brained idiot with zero understanding or acceptance of the real world.

Anon09/23/26, 04:14No.65532633

Nah.

Anon09/23/26, 04:17No.65532636

Why do you believe something so gay and retarded? >n-no you can't go to war! That's illegal! lmfao

Anon09/23/26, 04:19No.65532644

>still throwing around "murder" after having it explained to their little child brained head Since you're obviously retarded, we're done here kid.

Anon09/23/26, 04:25No.65532658

Do you believe the Anglo-Saxons illegally invaded Britain? Do you believe the Romans illegally invaded Gaul? Do you believe the Golden Horde illegally invaded Kiev? Do you believe the Russian Empire illegally invaded the Ottoman Empire? Do you believe Russia illegally invaded Georgia?The truth is it doesn't matter what you or I believe, the winner does no wrong, a war only becomes illegal if you fail.

Anon09/23/26, 04:28No.65532664

There is no such thing as international rule of law.

Anon09/23/26, 04:37No.65532683

ok you can play pretend then. >nooo it's illegal! ok what is anyone going to do? >literally nothing! if virtue signaling makes you feel better, go for it.

Anon09/23/26, 04:41No.65532689

what happened until innocent until proven guilty? Sorry nigger no trial no murder :)

Anon09/23/26, 04:54No.65532712

No trial takes place even for acquittal to happen. >b-but you have to pretend! It's the nice thing! I don't care. >Also, you don't believe in laws or really anything besides your own self interest You're right, I don't. They aren't real. >so it's cute that you're trying to pretend you do Where did I do this? I'm just pointing out you're a hypocrite. It's not like you care about laws, or that you're a hypocrite anyway, you just want to seethe that current thing is bad.Why are wars illegal? Because a powerful enough country says so. Which wars are illegal? The ones they specifically disagree with. If you believe in and respect this structure as some holy and sacred thing that must be upheld as a moral duty, you are a retard. Afghanistan says our invasion was unjust and illegal-does this matter? No, fuck em.

Anon09/23/26, 14:36No.65533402

Anon09/23/26, 14:40No.65533410

>It is a crime to illegally invade a nation. According to who, and what law? Who is the proponent agency? Who enforces it? Who places the charges? What constitutes an "illegal invasion"?You don't know, do you? Of course you don't.

Anon09/23/26, 14:43No.65533419

>It is a crime to illegally invade a nation. Well I guess Just Cause, Gulf war I and II, A-stan, and every other invastion the U.S. has conducted over the past 3 decades has been legal seeing how we've never been charged, nor has any of our elected representatives been charged, tried, or convicted.

Anon09/23/26, 14:44No.65533423

>supreme law of the world: the Catholic Church

Anon09/23/26, 14:47No.65533432

>you're just Russians Nah, you're just a fucking moron.

Anon09/23/26, 15:34No.65533545

>anyone who disagrees with me is a zigger falseflagger! Underage confirmed, at least mentally.

Anon09/23/26, 17:11No.65533762

>If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it may not literally be a duck, but for all intents and purposes I can treat it like one Are you Elma Fudd?

Anon09/23/26, 22:59No.65534553

The secret to success is M81 uniforms, PASGT armor, and A1 rifles.

Anon09/24/26, 11:42No.65535746

Wtf we literally just did this in Venezuela, are you retarded?

Anon09/24/26, 21:26No.65536826

poltard-kun, you should probably look into what a juggalo is before you start making up conspiracy theories to defend them

Anon09/25/26, 12:34No.65538372

essentially see

Anon09/26/26, 17:02No.65541482

>Why haven't we been able to replicate its success in the 30 years since? So the Venezuela thing happened while you were taking a nap, and you knew nothing about it because CNN refuses to admit we won?

Anon09/29/26, 14:55No.65548431

I'm pretty sure one of the first chiefs of the bundeswer had a sketchy WW2 background and was suspiciously close friends with Hermann Hoth in the post-war era.

Anon09/29/26, 15:14No.65548457

this kek. you can rip off the armbands but the eternal kraut remains

Anon09/29/26, 15:56No.65548530

>ex-Nazis were still a powerful voting bloc in both Germanies well into the 90s Can you point to the nazi policies that either Germany enacted during that period? Granted, the Stasi closely resemble the Gestapo but that's because the Gestapo closely resembled the NKVD.

Anon09/29/26, 15:58No.65548532

>They made a Nazi general head of the UN lmao Which one was that?

Anon09/29/26, 16:23No.65548572

>and at the very least malicious incompetence when the United States does it (i.e. the girls' school bombing).Remember the 2025 bombing of Iran? Where they reported in the news that US forces bombed 'enemy commanders in compounds' at night? Dozens were killed, that is correct, what wasn't mentioned was the fact all of them were sleeping in their homes, with their families, in multi-story apartment blocks. Reduced to rubble.

Anon09/29/26, 16:50No.65548627

Because since the end of the cold war our causes became ever less just and ever more cynical.

Anon09/29/26, 18:09No.65548811

>like 40% of the people in prison are sociopaths Well yeah, the justice system is imperfect.>arrest people who need case-management from a social worker >imprison people who need medication >kill people who need to be talked to or even just left alone It happens all the time and the one constant is that politicians without policies will talk about being tough on crime and will win votes doing it.If sociopaths hide their sociopathy and don't plead insanity, how would we even know? If you medicate everyone who isn't behaving how you'd like, you end up with the world of Equilibrium or something. There's balances to be struck, budgets to be managed, voters to be assuaged, careers to be climbed.>BORN TO ARREST >SOCIETY IS A SHIT >鬼神 >I am jail man >1,539,253,219 mentally-ill imprisonedAnyway, you talked about psychopaths and guilty intent and legally, you're not wrong that they're not technically guilty by way of being unable to determine right from wrong.

Anon10/03/26, 23:45No.65559524

>Absolute Resolve was also 1/100th as complex an operation as Just Cause I'm not sure that's strictly true. Absolute Resolve was many months of planning and preperation with a huge multi-agency effort to make sure everything went perfectly on the day.Just Cause was a response to an unstable situation and was thrown together in a huge rush with very little advance planning beyond whatever contingencies were already in the filing cabinet at general staff.

Anon10/04/26, 03:01No.65559931

>Why haven't we been able to replicate its success in the 30 years since?

Anon10/04/26, 03:05No.65559935

It was remembered as a famous fuckup at the time and the lessons learned contributed to future American training. Do have maps. Don't rely on phones. Do have a comms tree. Do have backup comms.

Anon10/05/26, 15:25No.65563300

Operation who gives a fuck

Anon10/06/26, 15:22No.65565710

But we did, in Venezuela. Why do we allow third worlders to still use this website?

Anon10/11/26, 20:25No.65580067

because nothing is funnier than watching a sheridan burn in

Anon10/11/26, 20:31No.65580081

it really was, and then even more drugs flooded the USA and now they are basically decriminalized. Now you're on the hook for a $100k education that is obsolete the second you graduate and can't even afford a decent home so the only solution is to join up to run screaming from some woman in an office building flying toys at you at 200kph plus.

Anon10/22/26, 11:29No.65602973

Anon10/24/26, 08:34No.65607672

also the best Van Halen song

Anon10/24/26, 08:35No.65607675

will we get a similar vibe when the US invades Venezuela/Cuba?

Anon10/24/26, 08:36No.65607678

Anon10/24/26, 08:37No.65607681

Anon10/24/26, 22:36No.65609243

The military equivalent of clubbing baby seals - nowhere near the scale of Desert Storm, Iraqi Freedom or Iran