I’ve looked at conflict maps more than once and the anti-ISIS forces in Iraq and Syria seem to be making steady progress. Strategically the situation looks quite good but the conflict is a long way from being over. ISIS should start squirming a lot the next two months though.
Getting supplies to a point of combat will determine much about how long it takes to bring this newest Caliphate down. We can strike at supply lines from the air to reduce their maneuver warfare abilities, but as AQ in Iraq is their predecessor , many of their staffs experience about how to make some movement possible in spite of enemy air will come into play.
The resupply abilities on *our* side will be stretched by the *lack* of staff experience, because Maliki, the State Department’s favorite, used his time in office to sell positions, after firing the men we trained in staff work when they wouldn’t pay up. All the equipment we can bring to bear to move their supplies will be useless without good staff work to feed and supply the troops as the front moves. That may mean sharp bouts of fighting far less connected in time and far less effective thereby. Keeping them from having time to move and resupply will be hard, unless we move our own staffers in, right down to the convoys, …again.
Just saw American Sniper. Hoorah for Eastwood. Had tears.
Very good for her. Hollyweird will have to deal with their cognitive dissonance on this.
Chad, Cameroon and Nigeria are now cooperating to crush Boko Haram, with the added motivation from the evil act of burning the Jordanian pilot alive hopefully we’ll also see ISIS crushed in short order.
I’ve looked at conflict maps more than once and the anti-ISIS forces in Iraq and Syria seem to be making steady progress. Strategically the situation looks quite good but the conflict is a long way from being over. ISIS should start squirming a lot the next two months though.
Getting supplies to a point of combat will determine much about how long it takes to bring this newest Caliphate down. We can strike at supply lines from the air to reduce their maneuver warfare abilities, but as AQ in Iraq is their predecessor , many of their staffs experience about how to make some movement possible in spite of enemy air will come into play.
The resupply abilities on *our* side will be stretched by the *lack* of staff experience, because Maliki, the State Department’s favorite, used his time in office to sell positions, after firing the men we trained in staff work when they wouldn’t pay up. All the equipment we can bring to bear to move their supplies will be useless without good staff work to feed and supply the troops as the front moves. That may mean sharp bouts of fighting far less connected in time and far less effective thereby. Keeping them from having time to move and resupply will be hard, unless we move our own staffers in, right down to the convoys, …again.
Just saw American Sniper. Hoorah for Eastwood. Had tears.
Very good for her. Hollyweird will have to deal with their cognitive dissonance on this.
Chad, Cameroon and Nigeria are now cooperating to crush Boko Haram, with the added motivation from the evil act of burning the Jordanian pilot alive hopefully we’ll also see ISIS crushed in short order.