Posted on 10/03/2015 10:42:41 AM PDT by amorphous
One question thats been asked repeatedly over the past thirteen months is why Washington has been unable to achieve the Pentagons stated goal of degrading and defeating ISIS despite the fact that the battle pits the most advanced air force on the planet against what amounts to a ragtag band of militants running around the desert in basketball shoes.
Those of a skeptical persuasion have been inclined to suggest that perhaps the US isnt fully committed to the fight. Explanations for that suggestion range from the mainstream (the White House is loathe to get the US into another Mid-East war) to the conspiratorial (the CIA created ISIS and thus doesnt want to destroy the group due to its value as a strategic asset).
The implication in all of this is that a modern army that was truly determined to destroy the group could likely do so in a matter of months if not weeks and so once Russia began flying sorties from Latakia, the world was anxious to see just how long the various rebel groups operating in Syria could hold up under bombardment by the Russian air force.
The answer, apparently, is less than a week.
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I have always thought that. A-10s would have chopped ISIS into mincemeat. We could have wiped them out whenever we felt like it.
It's possible. Just use powerful transmitters on GPS frequencies to spoof the guidance system into thinking it was somewhere else.
If the signals are stronger than what they can pick up from the satellites, they will process the stronger signals instead.
“Russia claims to have routed ISIS”
Claims being the keyword here. Russian propaganda (the more and less official one, like ZH) is so full of it that It can’t be true.
What will it take for our military to expose these buffoons???
At least for now, Russian claims may actually be far more accurate:
Thanks for your comment. And again, thanks to all the previous replies to my question. I am now beginning to get a picture here. Whatever the reason, it was a bad decision, IMHO. Thanks to all again.
I thought the reason we developed small diameter precision bombs was to mitigate collateral damage?
The collateral damage line is just an Obama excuse not to take direct action against ISIS.
Just like OBAMA calling ISIS, ISIL and Daesh is used to muddle the situation. -tom
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