U.S. led forces appear to be using white phosphorus in populated areas.

Washington Post ^ | June 9, 2017 | Thomas Neff

[gattaca]

This is all over the MSM today...

The U.S.-led coalition in Iraq and Syria appears to have used white phosphorus-loaded munitions on at least two occasions in densely populated areas of Mosul and in ...

[stillfree?]

I heard on the radio last night these are smoke devices. Bryan Suit’s is the host.

[SgtHooper]

Buurrrn baby, BURN!

[Feckless]

Willie Peter - One Flash and You’re Ash

[SgtHooper]

You must be referring to Willy Clinton? :-)

[x1stcav]

Written by leftards who are totally ignorant of military matters and are completely agenda driven.

WP has its role in the tool kit. It is not a terror weapon except in the minds, I hope, of the jihadi scum it might be aimed at.

Another meme here is that our military doesn’t know its trade craft and reacts with ‘oh let’s lob a few WP’s at them’ for fun.

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[Born to Conserve]

The video at the link shows anti missile flares being ejected by aircraft, probably helicopters.

[Bigg Red]

Thank you for your service.

[Repeat Offender]

I suspect you may have never been in a rifle company.

The people who have never been in the infantry usually have the best idea on what the infantry needs. They are truly the culmination of subject matter expertise, just ask them.

I mean John Rambo and McGuyver never needed WP......

/extreme sarc

Maybe after they watch one of their buddies burn and bleed to death from IED with explosively formed penetrator blow through the bottom of a HUMVEE, or interact with members of the local populace who had a daughter/sister/mother kidnapped raped, and tortured, they may have a different mindset....

Though I do concede some folks are too dense to reach.

[Cubs Fan]

I heard we use lead bullets too. horrible /s

[beelzepug]

“The cops should use it against demon-strating anarchists in Portland.”

Right, and then follow up with the mortars. :^)

[Dick Vomer]

It’s war. Make it as lethal and horrible has possible. It’ll end quicker and then we can rebuild. 10 deaths a day for 50 years or 10,000 a week. Which will end quicker?

[SVTCobra03]

And don’t forget the foo gas.

[Captain Rhino]

That was my impression as well. The spread and descent arcs were suggestive of the anti-MANPADS flares that are carried by nearly every modern warplane these days.

Just add a little grist to the WP as a weapon mill, in the early days of WWI, the German Army began using WP machine gun ammunition in repelling assaults by Allied troops. Because it bursts into flame on contact will air, it was stored in oil until ready to be fired. The WP produced terrible wounds that were very difficult to treat because the bullet fragments were prone to self-ignite. It’s use as machine gun ammunition stopped suddenly when the British sent word across the trench line that they would summarily execute any captured machine gun crews if evidence of WP machine gun ammunition was found in German positions.

Of course, WP has, for a long time, been lawful to use for screening and marking targets. My knowledge is dated but I seem to recall improved WP rounds were under development to deal with advanced imagery in fire control systems.

[GladesGuru]

That is not because of racism. There’s no such thing as brown phosphorus.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

Bring back napalm.

[Bratch]

War is hell.

Film at 11.

[Yaelle]

I suspect you may have never been in a rifle company.

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I never have. Look, even Hiroshima and Nagasaki were horrible. But necessary. Can’t fault me for saying Chem warfare even against our enemies is horrible. I sure got a lot of posts slapping my hands for saying horrible. If we did it, it is still horrible. And I am pro medium torture (waterboarding etc) for info.

I’m on your side and I sure don’t know what it’s like on the battlefield. But chem stuff against innocents is horrible on both sides.

[zzwhale]

should be using napalm and moabs....and B52’s non stop
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does the WAPO/bezos-brennan blog fake news also point out that the civilians were told to evacuate weeks ago due to all out WAR ... not PC obama fake “war”...
you know.... where you kill folks...called the enemy...

the old city of mosul is a free fire zone and if wapo was real news they would already know that .... and why did the CIA give bezos a $600 million non compete contract for “cloud services”.... (spying on US citz..?) and then bezos buys the wapo rag for $300 million.... when its worth a $1...???? MSFT and IBM both protested the non compete contract and were told to pound sand... after all bezos is willing to be the deep state pawn...

[aumrl]

I believe it is called ‘war’