Posted on 05/18/2015 3:39:48 PM PDT by Kaslin
Edited on 05/18/2015 4:08:17 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Nice glint off a couple of tails.
The only elite units in Iraq are U.S. SF. If you don’t believe me, ask the former “Emir” of ISIS’s oil and gas operations. I’m sure he felt very secure until Delta came knockin’ and administered the old double-tap.
That’s actually a really good question. It’s my opinion that if your country is being overrun by deranged throat slitters the ROE is really simple: Kill them on sight. Period. ALL of them. Now.
All other rules can wait until after the shooting is over.
Apparently, Joe Biden wasn’t briefed on the operation, otherwise, we’d know the names of every single operator on the mission by now.
“Maybe saddam’s army where officers executed their own men for desertion is the only model that works with these people”
Like the Soviet NKVD in WWII - stationed immediately behind the front lines, they made retreat certain death, vice merely probable death in facing the enemy.
I don’t think so, Navyguy. The Iraqi army is mostly made up of Shi’ites, and ISIS are Sunnis. In fact, when ISIS captures Shi’ites they usually behead them or douse them in gas in an iron cage and light ‘em up.
I guess they figure it’s much better to run then be captured.
That ‘Unit’ has a long tradition of doing superb work while keeping their mouths shut, even though it means another ‘Team’ tends to get a lot of credit since they tend to talk more. Both the Unit and the Team are extremely well trained and are beyond amazing, it’s just that the Unit tends to keep their mouths shut.
This optic has replaced the line of ISIS Toyotas just as Obama requested.
All Soldiers have a uniform supplied by us. Shirt, trousers, trick unit badges ... the works.
All soldiers have those way cool sand-colored combat boots supplied by us
All Soldiers have sox supplied by us.
Most élite troops will be wearing underwear supplied by us. Except those going commando. (Which is ultrs elite)
All Iraqi soldiers carry AK 74s, supplied by us. (Made in Yugoslavia or Rumania) Ditto RPGs.
The elite units have Abrams Tanks with instructions to leave them full of fuel and running when they bug out.
But what truly makes these troops ELITE, the Muslim Military Crème de la Crème, is that we supply every man jack of this fine body of men with a jaunty beret!
The fighting motto of the Elite Units of the Iraqi 'Army' says it all.
And ISIS are idiots to boot,mwatching Bruce Lee movies to learn how to fight. Face palm.
Bunch of IT techs waiting for a desk job to come along...
These are Sunni cities that ISIS is “conquering.” The Shi’ite army has no skin in this game.
Why do Americans recognize the names of Tikrit, Ramadi and Fallujah? Not because of their loyalty to the new Iraqi “nation.”
Agree, and that’s a very good point. Back at the end of World War I, when the Ottomans gave up their Middle East holdings, Iraq—as the nation it is—should not have been formed.
Lebanon should have been bigger, and encompassed more of the parts of Syria that were Christian, and Arabic Sunni Syria and western Iraq should have been one nation, and then the Shia of Iraq another. The Kurds should have got their own country, too. No reason for the Armenians, Azerbaijanis and others to get a country and the Kurds nothing.
The only reason that it didn’t happen was that’s they way France and Great Britain divvied them up. To the victor go the spoils. 100 years later and we’re still living with those spoils, though.
You may be right, but whatever the cause one thing is certain: The Iraqi Army is just about completely worthless.
“...Iraqi government threw in its elite units...”
There is not, nor has there ever been, any such thing as an Iraqi elite unit.
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