Posted on 05/18/2015 8:43:42 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
This Department of Defense news article (reproduced in full below) on the status of the fight against the Islamic State couldn’t have been more poorly timed. Published on May 15, the same day that the Islamic State overran the government center in Ramadi, the report provides a pollyannaish view from Brigadier General Thomas D. Weidley of the US military’s air campaign and the Iraqi military’s fight against the Islamic State. Weidley is the chief of staff for Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve, the US-led coalition that was put together to “defeat and dismantle” the Islamic State.
Weidley described Ramadi as “contested” and claimed that Iraqi forces repelled most attacks in the city when in reality the Islamic State took control of the government center and most neighborhoods in Ramadi by May 15. By May 17, the Islamic State was in full control of Ramadi and overran the Anbar Operations Command and 8th Brigade Headquarters at Camp Ar Ramadi. Iraqi forces are said to be in complete disarray in the Fallujah-Ramadi corridor.
Weidley’s description of the situation in Baiji was just as overly optimistic. He claimed that while the Islamic State breached the perimeter and has had “episodic control of some refinery facilities to continue attacking Iraqi security forces,” Iraqi forces are regaining the initiative inside and outside of the refinery. In reality, the Islamic State controls upwards of 80 percent of the refinery and has besieged an Iraqi force holed up there. The Islamic State is in full control of the city of Baiji and the surrounding areas, the the Iraqi military is unable or unwilling to send reinforcements. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at longwarjournal.org ...
LOL! Sounds like the general is an Obama tool.
Not rescuing them from drowning in the blood of their victims they have killed is not a good strategy.
Ash Carter is dumber then a box of rocks. Obama has appointed the most incompetent and ill trained types to lead every department. With Iran having troops in Iraq Obama is a failure.
LOL! Sounds like the general is an Obama tool.
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Conservative media has been treating this minor battle, pitting police against seasoned ISIS fighters, as if it was the equivalent of Napoleon losing at Waterloo. No need to quit and run yet.
Who is running the show? Charlie Sheen?????.................
What strategy is that?
Um.................tell that to the folks of Rammadi who had to flee.
Obama has purged any who are not.
Loyalty to liberal orthodoxy is the only qualification necessary.
Also, we are increasing the chocolate ration again, even though we are still at war with EastAsia. Tractor production has exceeded quotas for the fifth straight year. Praise be to Big Brother.
Sorry to say but our entire government is being run by idiots!
Ha....”Inherent Resolve,”....more like incontinent resolve
....and to further enhance efficiency and productivity of the State Chocolate Factory....weighing will occur at the end of the production run...including all wrappers and safety labels.
Ha!
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Who cares which faction of ISLAM is winning at any particular moment in any particular location?
This is beyond absurd.
Obama’s use of the AF to bomb ISIS troops movements is not very effective as you need a man or men on the ground to direct the CAS to be effective. I gave 8 digit coordinates once to a set of F100’s and later to a set of F4’s. Both had to be adjusted as bombs don’t do much in a swamp or on very soft ground. Regardless of the terrain one needs to adjust TAC AIR as the enemy is not stationary during an assault.
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