A gaping hole in the plan
So, let me get this straight. How this will work is that the Iraqi forces will designate missions, do the planning, and then lead the combat with US embeds and broader support.
So, what will stop the militia members who constitute a sizable percentage of the Iraqi forces at all ranks from contacting or otherwise colluding with the supposed targets of these operations?
As the US has learned so many times before, even with just an hour's notice, the Iraqi forces have repeatedly tipped the targets so that when US forces arrived, there were no men or weapons there.
If the Iraqis are truly planning things, almost every military operation will be tipped which means that the units involved, and the US forces embedded, will be sitting ducks.
That's the plan.
So, what will stop the militia members who constitute a sizable percentage of the Iraqi forces at all ranks from contacting or otherwise colluding with the supposed targets of these operations?
As the US has learned so many times before, even with just an hour's notice, the Iraqi forces have repeatedly tipped the targets so that when US forces arrived, there were no men or weapons there.
If the Iraqis are truly planning things, almost every military operation will be tipped which means that the units involved, and the US forces embedded, will be sitting ducks.
That's the plan.
posted by mikevotes at
9:04 PM
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His plan is repackaged garbage that was fed to us before. Same sh*t, different labels.
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Handsome B. Wonderful, at 9:18 PM
Very definitely, most of it is respun.
But, if we are going to let the Iraqis define the missions, that's kinda new, and I see it littered with potential problems.
Local Shia commanders singling out Sunnis and vice versa with US troops trapped in small numbers in the belly of it all.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 9:35 PM
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