Was it? I serious doubt NONE in the U.S. Military knew about it beforehand.

I strongly suspect that as the US repeatedly burns its allies, refactors its military and intelligence leadership to center around loyalty rather than competence, and refocuses its attention on domestic critics rather than foreign adversaries, we'll find ourselves "caught off guard" more and more regularly.

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ferguess_k 5 hours ago | parent [-]

But not with Israel, though. US has been an ardent ally of Israel, up to the point of joining the bombing of Iran and providing a significant amount of THAAD and SM-3, plus a lot more.

BTW back to the original point. The reason of my suspect is:

- The whole area has heavy US military existence

- UK is doing some military exercise in the same area

I can't imagine Israel just bomb Qatar without messaging these two. The twist is, they messaged to someone, but did not necessarily message the whole US/UK government, and that someone might as well keep the information for himself anyway.

	▲	Tadpole9181 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		On the other hand, Israel targeted the compound intending to kill the officials considering the US ceasefire proposal. Israel would not tell the US they were about to quite literally blow up our plans. Israel wants to continue their genocide, and we would have warned the other party (since we want our ceasefire).