Posted on 07/18/2015 7:17:45 PM PDT by markomalley
elite Army unit based at Fort Meade is sending battle-hardened soldiers to Iraq to get a close look at the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria so they can develop ways to fight America's newest adversary.
Lt. Col. Justin Sapp, a commander in the Asymmetric Warfare Group, describes ISIS militaries as a new kind of challenge: a force of fighters informed by a decade of war in Iraq and beyond, with legions of recruits, high-end weaponry and stable funding sources, that has proved adept at changing its strategy and tactics as it draws more attention from the United States and its allies.
"They have the benefit of years of experience and at the same time they have a lot of recruits — angry young people," Sapp said. "I don't look at them as an army, but they're certainly a serious and adaptable threat."
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
YES!!!!:))
Pay the Kurds for ears -like gopher feet when I was a kid.
“If we fought WWII like we have fought recently, we’d be speaking German or Japanese.”
Of course you do understand what kind of war this is right?
When it comes to warfighting military audiences tend to focus on the military and power aspects of warfare; the tangibles of terrain, enemy, weather, leadership, and troops; quantifiables such as the number of tanks and artillery tubes—the correlation of forces. Analysts steer toward the familiar rather than the unfamiliar; people tend to think in their comfort zones. The study of ideology or philosophy is often brushed aside, it’s not the “stuff of muddy boots;” it is more cerebral than physical and not action oriented. Planners do not assess the “correlation of ideas.” The practitioners are too busy.
Dr. Antulio Echevarria recently argued the US military does not have a doctrine for war as much as it has a doctrine for operations and battles. The military has a deficit of strategic, and, one could add, philosophic thinking.
- “The Quranic Concept of War”
http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/Articles/06winter/win-ess.pdf
Why is the NSA and/or some other organization(s) not hacking their websites, jamming their communications, seizing their bank accounts and bombing their oil wells? Shut off the money supply and the promotional streams and they dry up and blow away. Arrest anyone coming back from Syria/Libya/Iraq. After an appropriate length of time, release back into Syria/Iraq/Libya, injected with an RFID and instructions that if they EVER return to the US (or Canada, or Australia, etc.), they will be tracked down and killed. They made their choice, the hell forsaken country over their home, now deal with it!
If you truly killed them all, there would be no reason to waste pigskin.
They just need jobs.
Its kinda easy, if they have a towel on their head, bushy beard, and carrying around an ak47 or RPG, shoot them.
Its the only way to be sure.
Heh.
Find a base by GPS satellite. Send in electrically powered drones to Spray gasoline from about 1,000 feet. Spray the entire area and map grid.
Give the gasoline time to vaporize and spread. Send in a final drone to kick out a flare to ignite at around 300 feet.
Instant, deniable and fiscally responsible Fuel/Air explosive!
Where’s my paycheck?!
Two to the torso
One to the head
Leaves ‘em dead
NOW WAIT A MINUTE. The commander in chief, the Obama [pbuh] has declared ISIS is not a military problem. We can’t defeat them. We need to give them job applications and affirmative action DMV jobs. Then, they need better ideas and midnight basketball.
A single sub with one trident missile with only two warheads could end the entire Islamic problem in less than 15 minutes from launch ...
Obama created ISIS; Obama runs the Gov; military units are part of the Gov; Obama decided it is wrong to fight them in Iraq and Syria - it is better to fight them here as a law enforcement problem; the more that get trained overseas and return, the more promises he can make to fix the problem; the more money needed from taxpayers to fix the problem; and so on ...
This is why mandatory voting will become so important - to enforce loyalty and to make sure everyone is where they are supposed to be; outcome of elections to be predetermined by our Great Leader.
If we fought ISIS like we fought WW2, we would have won by now. Likewise, we would have won Vietnam and Korea.
In WW2, we leveled entire enemy cities and did not care about civilian casualties. In WW2, we were prepared to exterminate the entire enemy population, if that was what it took.
Then again, in WW2, we had no protests against that mode of war from our resident leftists, because we were fighting on the same side as the Communists.
Won’t matter much until the ROE are changed.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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