“If you’d kept up on current events”...
“IMO the 2009 withdrawl is essentially reversed.”
Which is EXACTLY why very few in the U.S. are hearing anything about this. This destroys over a decade of Democrat-pimped media narratives.
From several New Years Eve conversations, I can anecdotally attest that VERY few Americans know we have taken casualties fighting ISIS, or that US troops are now fighting ISIS with BOOTS ON THE GROUND.
To my knowledge neither US or coalition troops are fighting ISIS. The Iraqis and Peshmerga are doing the ground fighting. Basically, we blow stuff up in coordination with them and they move in and reclaim an area. Then we move in behind them and setup logistics and other support in preparation for the next coordinated push. It’s worked great and there’s nothing ISIS can do but melt away. If they assemble for an operation, even a defensive one they get surrounded, blown up and scattered. So they hide. When they’re discovered they run or die -or a combination thereof.
Pitched battles are few and and involve Iraqi ground forces rather than US or coalition.
Basically, the only ‘US’ and coalition entities in direct contact with ISIS is ordinance.