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‘No Plans at This Point’ to Assign Code Name for Syria, Iraq Operations
Seapower ^ | 9/25/14 | Richard Burgess

Posted on 09/27/2014 2:00:04 PM PDT by tellw

ARLINGTON, Va. — Five days into the U.S. and coalition air strikes against targets of the Islamic Levant (ISIL) inside Syria, and six weeks since the United States began flying air strikes against I Department of Defense (DoD) has yet to assign a code name to the operations.

During a briefing to reporters Sept. 25 at the Pentagon, RADM John Kirby, spokesman for the DoD, said he knew “of no plans at this point” to assign the operation a code name.

DoD and NATO routinely assign code names to combat operations, such as Operation Iraqi Freedom for the Iraq War from March 2003 to August 2010, and even the stability operations in Iraq from September to December 2011, Operation New Dawn. The U.S. air campaign against Libya in 2011 was called Operation Odyssey Dawn, succeeded by NATO’s Operation Unified Protector. Even very short-term operations, such as Operation Praying Mantis against Iran in April 1988, often are assigned names.

(Excerpt) Read more at seapowermagazine.org ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Syria
KEYWORDS: isil; isis; operationbombing; operationbombingis; operationbombingisil; operationbombingisis; syria
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Because this isn't war?
1 posted on 09/27/2014 2:00:05 PM PDT by tellw
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To: tellw

OBAMACARES... or are we saving that for the Ebola crisis?


2 posted on 09/27/2014 2:03:09 PM PDT by BilLies ( it isn't the color of the skin, but culture that is embraced that degrades.)
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To: tellw

Screw the pooch?
Shake the pooch?
Shake the dog?
Wag the dog?


3 posted on 09/27/2014 2:04:14 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Now is not the time for fear. That comes later.")
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To: tellw

We’re only dropping bombs within the sovereign territory of a country whose leader we have a declared foreign policy objective of overthrowing. Does that sound like war to you?


4 posted on 09/27/2014 2:04:35 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (The greatest trick the Soviets ever pulled was convincing the world they didn't exist.)
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To: tellw

“I’ll take “Operation Holy Crusade” for $300, Alex!”


5 posted on 09/27/2014 2:04:50 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: tellw

Code name Fluster Cuck.


6 posted on 09/27/2014 2:06:11 PM PDT by cableguymn (It's time for a second political party.)
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To: tellw

The enemy says it is IS and Islam.

The Pentagon and Obola-the-UndocumentedMoslemImpostor
says, “No. It is not IS it is ISIL.
and No. It is not Islam.”

Americans will never trust the Pentagon again until
Obola is arrested, indicted, and tried.
Even the Egyptian Army is smarter than the Pentagon
because THEY removed Obola’s al Qaeda who were
killing Egyptians.

No one in DC or the Pentagon gives a damn that
Obola is KILLING AMERICANS.

Just ask Hasan.


7 posted on 09/27/2014 2:06:23 PM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: tellw

Operation Hold The Senate


8 posted on 09/27/2014 2:09:12 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Islamopobia:The Irrational Fear Of Being Beheaded)
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To: tellw

How about “Operation Cluster SWIVE”?!


9 posted on 09/27/2014 2:10:41 PM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: tellw

Code Name “Uh, I, Uh, You Can, Uh, Keep Your Iraq if, Uh, You Like Your, Uh, Iraq”


10 posted on 09/27/2014 2:11:07 PM PDT by therightliveswithus
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To: tellw

Close Slit Trench.

Clean Latrine.


11 posted on 09/27/2014 2:12:05 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: tellw

I thought they were calling it Reluctant Warrior until it was pointed out that was an oxymoron.


12 posted on 09/27/2014 2:12:09 PM PDT by Ingtar (The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
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To: tellw

Syria bombing ... Operation Overreach.


13 posted on 09/27/2014 2:12:28 PM PDT by Usagi_yo (Criticize, marginalize, demonize, criminalize.)
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To: tellw

You may be right. To give this operation a name would be to admit that this is an ongoing military action. Which Obama doesn’t want to admit.


14 posted on 09/27/2014 2:13:58 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: tellw

Operation Templar Autumn


15 posted on 09/27/2014 2:14:20 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Kerry, as Obama's plenipotentiary, is a paradox - the physical presence of a geopolitical absence")
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To: tellw

Operation Raise Poll Numbers


16 posted on 09/27/2014 2:15:24 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Diogenesis

I’m amazing at how little we hear about Egypt and el-Sisi. What he’s done there is probably the best thing that’s happened in our world in recent years. Our media ignored it... because our MB aligned gov’t has abandoned them.

Now that Turkey is allowing the Brotherhood to stage within their borders, el-Sisi will be attacked soon. I believe what’s coming between Egypt and Turkey/MB is going to be a major flashpoint on the road to Armageddon. NATO will be a convenient excuse for the US to do the Muslim Brotherhood’s bidding when the time comes.


17 posted on 09/27/2014 2:18:37 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (The greatest trick the Soviets ever pulled was convincing the world they didn't exist.)
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To: tellw

No, Obama is only making a show. He was going to name it Operation Americans Be Suckers.


18 posted on 09/27/2014 2:20:03 PM PDT by dforest
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To: tellw

Operation Not Now I’m Golfing.


19 posted on 09/27/2014 2:22:07 PM PDT by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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To: tellw

Operation Democrats2016


20 posted on 09/27/2014 2:22:45 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (AGW "Scientific method:" Draw your lines first, then plot your points)
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