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Mattis: ISIS Strategy Has Shifted to 'Annihilation'
newsmax.com ^ | Cathy Burke

Posted on 05/29/2017 5:55:19 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

"We have already shifted from attrition tactics where we shove them from one position to another in Iraq and Syria, to annihilation tactics where we surround them."

"Our intention is that the foreign fighters do not survive the fight to return home to North Africa, to Europe, to America, to Asia, to Africa – we are not going to allow them to do so," he added. "We are going to stop them there and take apart the caliphate."

He explained "attrition is where you keep pushing them out of the areas that they are in."

"What we intend to do by surrounding them is to not allow them to fall back, thus reinforcing themselves as they get smaller and smaller, making the fight tougher and tougher. … that surrounding operation is going on and once surrounded then we will go in and clean them out."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gwot; mattis; secdefmattis; trump; trumpgwot
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1 posted on 05/29/2017 5:55:19 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

I like that strategy.


2 posted on 05/29/2017 5:57:17 AM PDT by dforest
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Mercy with ISIS is for the ignorant that haven’t grown up yet.


3 posted on 05/29/2017 6:00:48 AM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: dforest

I think that is a good strategy but a problem will remain: There will still be Muslims left alive in those countries.


4 posted on 05/29/2017 6:04:28 AM PDT by Valentine Michael Smith (You won't find justice in a Courtroom)
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To: RoosterRedux

http://syriancivilwarmap.com/

Map of war in Syria with recent developments.

Click on an area and it will tell you which force has control.


5 posted on 05/29/2017 6:06:24 AM PDT by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: RoosterRedux

Guess he didn’t get the memo from k-dee perry huh? Supposed to hug it out. She can go first.


6 posted on 05/29/2017 6:07:00 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Valentine Michael Smith
I think that is a good strategy but a problem will remain: There will still be Muslims left alive in those countries.

Kill all the murderers, send in an army of missionaries.

7 posted on 05/29/2017 6:08:20 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: dforest
I think it's called war.

Obama will go nuts. He was determined to rehabilitate them....and it can't be done.

8 posted on 05/29/2017 6:08:24 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: dforest

The best you can hope for.


9 posted on 05/29/2017 6:08:38 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: RoosterRedux

Can we take this approach to Democrats?


10 posted on 05/29/2017 6:09:14 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: RoosterRedux

That strategy works for me. Sad that it’s 15 years too late.


11 posted on 05/29/2017 6:09:50 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Negative people make healthy people sick." - Roger Ailes)
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To: RoosterRedux

Hopefully his statement means a change in the ROE.


12 posted on 05/29/2017 6:12:11 AM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: RoosterRedux
"A-A- Annihilation??"


13 posted on 05/29/2017 6:12:43 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hillary Clinton IS a felon)
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To: dforest

Reasonable policy....Now, leverage the delivery systems from the air.....minimal boots on the ground.


14 posted on 05/29/2017 6:17:25 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: RoosterRedux

Kill them all, to the last man, woman and child.

Spare, perhaps, only the infants who have not yet learned that “Jews are the descendants of pigs and dogs”.


15 posted on 05/29/2017 6:17:54 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Sacajaweau

soetoro was part of them. He is the primary enemy islamist agent plaguing the United States. He should be Gitmo’ed, and preferably hanged.


16 posted on 05/29/2017 6:18:19 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug

I’d like to see him on Dancing With The Stars.

Dancing the Tyburn Jig.


17 posted on 05/29/2017 6:19:04 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Much less administrative burden if you just kill them on the battlefield.


18 posted on 05/29/2017 6:19:27 AM PDT by Delta 21
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To: BlueStateRightist
Can we take this approach to Democrats?

Yes, get hold of A. Weiner's and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz's hard drives and publish the contents.

That will most likely be a digital MOAB for the Demoncrats.

19 posted on 05/29/2017 6:20:12 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: RoosterRedux

What will they do with all those young brain washed kids learning to chop off the heads of barbie Dolls and attach explosives to their own bodies? You are not dealing with the misguided youths of WW II Germany, you may have a bell curve problem in ISIS land.


20 posted on 05/29/2017 6:21:44 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Again it disapeared? Damn cursor is in cahoots with the tag line.)
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