File the 4 hour Battle of Khasham under the ancient topic of intelligence as critical to ground truth in a fog of war.

“Not their people” was the official information received by the U.S. Army from a Russian government “deconfliction line“, even as Russian tanks advanced towards American troops.

The Russian high command in Syria assured us it was not their people, and my direction to the chairman was for the force, then, to be annihilateds. And it was.

American combined forces in just a few hours killed as many as 200 incoming Russian troops and destroyed their archaic systems, ostensibly another foreshadowing of Ukrainian defense preparedness in 2022.