Arrowhead Ripper
We're beginning to get a picture of the offensive in Diyala. The idea seems to be to conduct the same types of clearing operations previously used in Anbar with the addition of small "blocking forces" along escape routes.
Where I would put the greatest question on the strategy, "The Iraqi forces will have to hold areas once they are cleared."
Also in Iraq, (AP) A US airstrike in the Diyala offensive "missed" its target and destroyed the local headquarters of the 1920's brigade, one of the Sunni isurgent groups now working with the Americans.
(Reuters) More mortar fire on the Green Zone.
(Reuters) "Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan told Reuters his government would authorize a military cross-border operation into northern Iraq to crack down on Kurdish PKK rebels if required."
Where I would put the greatest question on the strategy, "The Iraqi forces will have to hold areas once they are cleared."
Also in Iraq, (AP) A US airstrike in the Diyala offensive "missed" its target and destroyed the local headquarters of the 1920's brigade, one of the Sunni isurgent groups now working with the Americans.
(Reuters) More mortar fire on the Green Zone.
(Reuters) "Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan told Reuters his government would authorize a military cross-border operation into northern Iraq to crack down on Kurdish PKK rebels if required."
posted by mikevotes at
8:24 AM
4 Comments:
Arrowhead Ripper: Mil-speak for "been there done that."
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-epm, at 10:13 AM
It does have a different read from Together Forward. Arrowhead Ripper reads macho, military, and not including the Iraqis.
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mikevotes, at 1:39 PM
This is like arguing over the difference between country music and western music... In the great universe of possibilities, this is, for all practical purposes, a distinction without of difference.
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-epm, at 2:33 PM
Actually, I should have probably compared this operation to Fallujah and Ramadi in 2004 as a more direct parallel.
No Iraqi forces used there either.
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mikevotes, at 2:52 PM
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