More like promised a new sports car, and the production line is behind schedule.
Remember, no plan survives first contact with the enemy. We’ve REALLY been on a roll here, and the rate is astonishing to me.
Given the power, bodies and knowledge available to the evil forces and given the profile of people who are starting to fall under the crosshairs we should probably be expecting some sort of counteroffensive. BE PREPARED for anything!
If not a big push back we could see a day when it looks like they’ll be routed and they might unleash some sort of chaos in areas as cover to slip out from small, isolated airports (hopefully someone is tracking expensive and/or long range aircraft showing up parked at podunk airfields ), remote border crossings and marine facilities with short runs out of US waters...
Your post #1458...regarding timeline...success.
Quest Channel was running some historic documentaries of WW II battles in the Pacific Theater. In the 80s I had this insatiable bug about reading everything regarding that war. EVERYTHING. But time takes its toll and things get a little forgotten. One of those somewhat forgotten things was the fight for Peleliu in the Marianas Islands.
Watching video and hearing vignettes of the participants brought back great memories of me on the couch in front of a fire in 1982 absorbing as much text as I could in the limited down hours I had. Also today watching that, I was struck with the parallels of that 1944 battle between the US military vs the Japanese Empire, and the current White Hats vs the DS we are now focused on.
With the best intelligence available and considering what forces the US could bring to bear on Peleliu, what was flagged as a three-day fight extended to over 70 days. The Japanese were dug in tighter than wood ticks with supplies far exceeding what our estimates foretold. And the will of the Japanese to hang on to what they believed in...to fight to the last man made taking ground for the US literally a yard by yard operation. 11,000 US casualties. Easy it was not. Damned brutal and horrifically ugly it was.
I can’t imagine the feed back Peleliu planners had to give to Admiral Chester Nimitz about the real time schedule. It’s that contact with the enemy thing. Stuff turns to crap.
So Q’s July “date” of things finally getting the Peleliu flame throwers...well, we have a couple of days yet. After being reminded of the Peleliu battle today, the DS actors are as dug-in and as fanatic as any of the Japanese were on that island. And the deepest DS deepies are not going to be taken alive. Q will have to throw a 10 pound satchel charge of dynamite into every rabbit hole encountered ala September 1944.
Personally, as impatient as I am, I believe the progress we hope for is actually taking place rather quickly all things considered.