First, why would you make an opposed landing right into the heart of your enemy's strength? You think ISIL may be set up to defend their headquarters? Yeah? How about making a relatively unopposed landing somewhere else nearby (landing operations are when you are most vulnerable) and then forming up and hitting the defenses?
The "plan" to head south to Tripoli? Fool, Tripoli is northwest of Sirte. The primary oil fields are southeast, and Benghazi is northeast. This calls into question the author's (or planners') basic grasp of geography. Also, the notion of splitting your forces and heading off in to different directions leaving your logistics point/landing point relatively undefended doesn't sound smart. This is a lot of territory to cover, against an enemy that is small, camouflaged, and mobile. Not a smart plan.
Finally, and perhaps most disturbing - why would you publicize your plan in advance? Ever hear of a thing called OPSEC? Idiots all.
Not to worry the oddities of the plan are to throw the bad guys into uncontrollable laughter such that they will be easy to take out by the Russian contingent ... Did I excerpt the part about the Russians? Must be old age ... you think?
Debkafile is notoriously unreliable. They had a Chinese CV off the coast of Syria a few months ago, as an example...
The worst part is they are not idiots. They don’t care about American loss of life, only Muslim loss of life. I pray to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that this is not true.