If I was one of those international soldiers and was told I’d be under a US soldier/veteran, I’d just leave. War is America’s bread and butter, it may seem they’re helping but they wouldn’t want it to end so swiftly. Then you’re just a cannon fodder for their long-con military industrial complex profits.

A veteran because they can deny direct involvement?

“Take the chips out of your cell phones” … right, ok, that seems prudent … “especially the international ones, we will give you other chips.” … wat???

(because surely sigint systems are incapable of correlating that an IMEI which was just using a foreign SIM now has a local one?)