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.
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Let’s call it a Crusade.
Does not naming the operation keep our troops from earning ribbons? Just curious. I pray not.
Operation Mom Jeans
Operation: Sandtrap
Operation: Pitching Wedge
It isn’t war, but we’re dispatching a division HQ from Fort Riley to Iraq for command and control. You don’t need a division HQ element to direct a few hundred “advisers” (read: SF personnel).
The real plan is becoming very clear. The JCS have told Obama that the Kurds can hold in the north (and even regain a limited amount of territory), but the Iraqi Army is a shambles and there is no guarantee they can keep ISIS out of Baghdad. Members of the JCS have also informed the CINC that without American boots on the ground, there’s a very good chance that ISIS will take over all of Iraq, except for Kurdistan.
Obama has no stomach for a ground war, but he doesn’t want to be known as the President who lost Iraq, either. The Division HQ will become the command element of up to three brigade combat teams, which will deploy to Iraq after election day; probably one to secure the Baghdad area, and two to jump start an offensive in the north. It’s no coincidence the division HQ element was announced the same week that the Indiana ANG announced it was sending a squadron of A-10s to the Middle East.
The increase in deployments will slowly increase, and the big announcement will come in early November. Until then, Barry will stick to his claims of “no [more] boots on the ground in hopes of increasing the Dim turnout in November.
Operation Hop Slop
Operation Tee Time.
If it succeeds, it will be Operation October Surprise - the strong foreign policy that drags Obama out of the political abyss and saves the Senate for the Democrats. If it fails, it will be Operation Bush’s Legacy - yet another effort by our brilliant leader to minimize the damage done by GWB.
operation junior varsity
Operation Caliphate Restoration?
Difficult to write performance reports/medals for accomplishments on an operation that cannot be accurately named.
Winner.
See post 54.
“Operation Here’s a list of what we won’t do, and tactics we won’t use.”
Thanks. That’s what I thought.
I’d of missed it, without the ping ;)
Operation Salam alakim
Operation #BootsOffTheGround
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