Interesting. If the Kurds push west from there they could eventually link up with the Syrian Kurds southeast of Ash Shaddadi and cut off the ISIS supply lines to Mosul.
I assume the goal of the Kurds/US is to deny user of route 1 to the south in Iraq to ISIS. If the Syrian Kurds take control of rt 47 to the west of Mosul, that will cut most of the routes into Mosul off.
Is Syrian going to end up with the equivalent of a Berlin Wall?
Except in this case, both sides will suck.
The last paragraph is - well, interesting.
Hit with rocket fire a few days ago that killed a Marine and firing it’s big guns in support of combat operations - but it’s not a combat outpost.
To maintain presidential credibility, the Marines were all wearing Nikes
thus, there were no boots on the ground