President Donald Trump’s deadly war with Iran, which he vowed would be quick and easy, is not going according to plan.

As of yet, aside from Trump’s public tantrums, one of the clearest signs of this failure is that the Pentagon is reportedly opening its suggestion box in search of “creative and unconventional” ideas to help end the war.

According to CNN, U.S. Central Command sent an email last week to military analysts soliciting feedback. From the outlet:

The request from a senior officer at the US military command carrying out President Donald Trump’s war with Iran came in an email: We need ideas.

“We are looking for new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran,” an officer in US Central Command’s intelligence branch wrote in a message sent Wednesday to a broad group of military analysts, according to a source familiar with the message. A second source also said that a senior US military officer sent the message last week soliciting new ideas for how to deal with Iran.

The crowdsourcing-style query, which military officials said was unusual over email, is one sign of the limited — and potentially unpalatable — options available to Trump to force Iran into a deal on his terms.

MS NOW hasn’t independently confirmed the email, but the Pentagon isn’t denying it. Here’s what CENTCOM told CNN:

Ja’han Jones

Ja’han Jones is an MS NOW opinion blogger. He previously wrote The ReidOut Blog.