The General is announcing the situation to his subordinate.

"There are 18 heavily armoured tanks just over the hill, there. Also, at least 40 infantrymen, spread out around them." "Given that situation, what are your preferred tactics?"

"I prefer the minty ones.", he said.

Don't know about US Army, but in India

Our subs don't volunteer any opinion ...

It is a Tic-Tac joke.

Okay, got it; a small army.

You will probably have to Google "Tic-Tac mints"

I thought you were at least referring to a war game if not actual maneuvers. In a war game we do consider tanks as biscuits and rest is optional, like hill could be some cake and infantrymen, as you suggested, mint.

May sound weird to civies now but similar code is used in real wars.
For example, a missile cruiser will fire when it receives orders like 'Popcorn 3'
A carrier may load the planes with either SEC (syrup encased chocolates) to rain on 'biscuits' (tanks) or SEX (shrapnel filled explosives for infantry).

In the Iran standoff, ship commanders were waiting for a signal from the President, something like 'Mint Iran'. As we know, the Tweet never came.

My God, what have I started?

If you mention who the enemy is, I may understand the pain

Had excluded China because the only time Chinese used tanks was against their own youth in Tienanmen Square.

They play covert covert, you know like in response to Trump's Trade Tariff they devalued the Yuan (3rd time). In response to Huawei, Iran Sanctions, they released Covid …, Wuhan's 3000 dead; that was collateral damage.x

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As you suggested I Googled Tic Tac - seems it's a brand for mouth freshner with Mint flavor. So this is code to call for negotiations.

Very clever.
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Won;t work with Chinese, they don't come to table. They invite. Then abuse; like they abused Margaret Thatcher and she gave up Hong Kong

Please, who is the enemy.

God, how I hate having to explain a joke.

You mean the Sub preferred chewing mint encrusted soldiers? That would be like Atlantic report: Trump commenting on a WWII cemetery 'Suckers & Losers.

Somethings not right. We have a war game and ...

I think if you can explain the beginning, whether the general was using tic tac and biscuits as make believe soldiers and tanks
or
whether mint soldiers wearing US uniform can be ordered from a bakery
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Or is it a video game where enemy is wearing mint colored uniform

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The joke concerns the word ‘tactics’.

The subordinate heard it as ‘tic tacs’ and given that there are different flavours of tic tacs, he stated his preference of “minty ones”.

Nothing to do with war or video games

Shhhhh..
. This was starting to get funny

Apologies for spoiling your fun

I still ya

There used to be a comedy programme on TV called SOAP. It took every day events and blew them up out of all proportion. (OMG "Blew them up") What am I to do to end this madness. I think maybe KitKat has the answer. Let's have a "Love In".