1. "Operation Inherent Resolve" - Who names these things? Who?
2. "ISIL" - Ok, no one calls it ISIL except the White Hut. DAESH if you want, but ISIL, buddy, er, Colonel, Really.
3. Bear with me, this one is great - "On November 15th, the new Syrian forces, trained by the coalition, conducted a mortar raid on an ISIL stronghold in the tri-border area near Al Tam. This was the first operation of its kind in Southern Syria, five buildings and a weapons cash were destroyed." - Oh that is going to drive ISIS out - a mortar raid - Really!? ISIS is barely phased by attacks by A-10s and SU-24s, and you are trumpeting the first mortar raid of its kind.
4. "We continue our disruption operations in the Tigris River Valley, which includes Baiji, Mosul and Hawaija. We've conducted 105 airstrikes since October 15." - 105 airstrikes and ISIS[L] seems to be doing just fine. Maybe you should stick with mortar raids.
5. This "effort" we call "Operation Tidal Wave II." Who names these things? Who?
6. "Finally, along the Euphrates River Valley, which includes Ramadi, Fallujah, and Abu Hayat, we've conducted over 190 airstrikes since October 15."
7. "As indigenous friendly forces maneuver against our enemy, it causes our enemy to move. The enemy has to react, and as soon as the enemy reacts, we kill them from the air." - What indigenous friendly forces? You mean the one's who just launched their very first mortar raid?
8. Oh here we have the indigenous friendly forces. "The Syrian democratic forces liberated that town [Al Hawl]" - I have been making a joke about we don't support ISIS; we don't support Asad; we support the forces for freedom and democracy, but I meant it as a sarcastic joke. I had no idea [well in my more cynical moments I did, but I thought I was just being pejorative] that that was the heart of our so-called strategy.
9. "We haven't done the math on these 116 trucks [All the satellite and drone intelligence and you can't count how much oil is being moved - in my day a grade school kid could do that]. What we have done the math on is Operation Tidal Wave, writ large .. we believe that the oil facilities inside of Operation Tidal Wave counts for about two-thirds of the revenue that ISIL makes by selling oil."
10. "So by -- by destroying this chain -- because remember, you can't look at it the trucks as -- the trucks are just one link in the chain. There's trucks, there's wellheads, there's pumps, there's separators, there's collection points. So it's -- it's a chain and the trucks are kind of at one end of the -- wellhead is at the ground. You know, that's where the oil comes out of the ground, that's the step one in the chain. And the truck, that's the last step in the chain - No the penultimate step in the chain is delivering the oil to Turkey. The ultimate step is payment transferred by some corrupt son of a Turkish premier to some terrorist outfit routed through some set of banks, all of which appear to be still standing. And it really isn't we, anyway. It was our Russian friends, the same guys we just stabbed in the back for disrupting the cash flow to Erdigan's son [I want to know - is Bilal a supporter of freedom and democracy too].
But there you have our strategy in a nutshell - hundreds of airstrikes to "disrupt" the enemy, and support for the forces of democracy who have actually conducted their very first mortar raid in this fine example of maneuver warfare where we induce the enemy to move and then kill him.
As Trump has said, where is Patton or MacArthur when you need them. Oh, we fired them already because they used some bad words. And as near as I can tell it is the French and the Russians who are the one's "making the other SOB die for his country".
Blue circle number 4 on the map is ISIS HQs but we could not find it with both hands. We had to get the French to do it.