参谋长联席会议主席Joseph F. Dunford将军提请授权。
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Into that atmosphere, the announcement April 13 that the United States had just dropped the MOAB was itself a dramatic development and was interpreted by many news organizations and national security experts that the Trump administration was sending Mr. Kim, or Syria’s Mr. Assad, a message.
That was not so — an American commander in Afghanistan had simply taken it on his own to use a particularly large bomb on a cave complex in the remote province of Nangarhar.
文章说:4月13号使用的MOAB炸弹被世界广泛地误认为是Trump在警告北韩金和叙利亚阿萨德,而事实却是美国将军用一个很大的炸弹轰炸阿富汗边远省份的一个复杂掩体而已。
文章还解释了为啥4月9日卡尔文深号航母被宣告北上却实际驶向南方澳大利亚海域,Harris上将对北朝鲜放烟幕弹的同时没想到会错误地损害美国的信誉。
For the wayward Carl Vinson, the confusion began on April 9 when the public affairs office of the Navy’s Third Fleet issued a news release saying that Admiral Harris had ordered the Carl Vinson, a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered carrier, and its strike force — two destroyers and one cruiser — to leave Singapore and “sail north” to the Western Pacific.
As is customary, the Navy did not say exactly where the carrier force was headed, when it would get there or its precise mission.
Navy officials said the main reason for issuing the release was to alert the families of thousands of sailors that Admiral Harris had also canceled a port call for the ships in Fremantle, Australia, where many relatives were planning to meet their loved ones.
Admiral Harris feared that images of sailors on shore leave would be unseemly at a time when North Korea was firing missiles, Navy officials said.
But the news release omitted any mention of a secretive naval exercise with Australia that Admiral Harris never meant to suggest he was canceling, Navy officials said.
Thus, once the Carl Vinson left Singapore on April 8, it actually sailed south, toward the Indian Ocean, the opposite direction Admiral Harris had said it was going.
At that point, some Pentagon officials said on Thursday, it would have been embarrassing and possibly damaging to American interests to publicly correct the narrative, and send mixed messages to the North Koreans. But some former officials disagreed.
“Words matter, and there will be a cost to U.S. credibility in Asia for this mistake,” said Brian McKeon, the Pentagon’s top policy official at end of the Obama administration. “Given the stakes, senior officials should have taken greater care to understand the facts, and to correct the record once they learned them.”