[tonycavanagh]

In COIN war a terrorists most important weapon is to be able to assimilate themselves within a host/local population.

Remove the populations support and that is then there major weakness.

This is what are forces have been doing over there.

This has led to better intelligence gathering with more local people coming forward with information on terrorist cells and supply points. Leading to a number of successful operations.

The training of the new Iraq army is also starting to bare fruit.

And local people of started to deal with the foreign terrorists them self's, even reported on this very site.

I am all for fighting with every weapon in the Armory, but it has to be the right weapon at the right time, in the right terrine.

[tumblindice]

There was some sort of dust-up with muslims and redcoats in India a long time ago, wasn't there, over paper cartridges (that you had to bite) lubricated with pork fat, so that native troops rebelled?
You may have a point.