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Pentagon's New Strategy for Defeating ISIS. LONG
Posted on 1/16/16 at 6:34 am
Posted on 1/16/16 at 6:34 am
Via militarytimes.com
^^What could go wrong with this plan?
Glad to see they're taking responsibility for their own country nowadays.
There's more in the article about how we're gonna attack the cities but this is the general plan.
Guess we're gonna crank up the heat over there.
What's the OT think?
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IRBIL, Iraq — The U.S. military headquarters here is outfitted with maps showing a "forward line of troops" — a FLOT, in military-speak — that divides northern Iraq's Kurdish region from territory held by the Islamic State group. The line is precisely drawn, following the contours of specific roads and berms. A mere 40 miles west, the terrain is pocked with trenches, fighting positions, razor wire and armed checkpoints. It's like a scene from Europe during World War I, one American official says.
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It's a jarring change for the personnel who've spent much of their careers fighting on far more ambiguous battlefields. Steadily, though, they are coming to grips with it as, during the past several months, the Pentagon and the White House have fundamentally shifted their strategy for defeating ISIS. The way forward will mean potentially more key U.S. support troops on the ground to back friendly local forces who will wage the fight to retake ISIS-held territory.
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The new plan calls for fighting the terror group like a conventional enemy, relying on traditional military tactics such as maneuver-style warfare and attrition. This has replaced last year’s approach, dubbed the “Iraq First Strategy," which was widely criticized as ineffective, especially after ISIS fighters seized the city of Ramadi in May. Instead, the U.S. and its allies now intend to confront the extremist group and its force of about 30,000 fighters, targeting their strongholds and resources across Iraq and Syria simultaneously.
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Political considerations in Washington and Baghdad will limit the size of the U.S. force on the ground, so the campaign relies heavily on a dizzying patchwork of local ground forces — often with competing agendas — moving in large formations to isolate and ultimately invade the two major ISIS strongholds: Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria. In Mosul, the plan calls for the Iraqi army to attack from the south, while the Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga squeeze Islamic State forces from the north and east. In Syria, U.S. forces will support friendly militias in the northeast as they push south toward the Islamic State's defacto capital.
^^What could go wrong with this plan?
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"Our campaign plan's map," Defense Secretary Ash Carter told soldiers at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, on Wednesday, "has got big arrows pointing to both Mosul and Raqqa."
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In a secondary front, the Iraqi army will move west from Ramadi, the recently reclaimed capital of Anbar province, up the Euphrates Valley and toward the Syrian border. Another key pillar of this strategy requires cutting off the Islamic State's primary supply line to the outside world by pressuring Turkey to seal its border with Syria.
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does signal that this is going to be a much more conventional fight than the [Obama] administration had first calculated."
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Meanwhile, Iraqi leaders have begun imposing restrictions on the size and scope of the U.S. military force in their country.
Glad to see they're taking responsibility for their own country nowadays.
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The new battle plan has many potential pitfalls, of course. And there are no clear plans for ousting ISIS militants from their strongholds in Syria west of the Euphrates River, where several rebel factions are fighting to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has been buoyed by Russian military forces that have established an air base along the Mediterranean coast. For the U.S. and its allies, Russia's presence and activity in the region only further complicates an already convoluted pocket of Syria’s five-year-old civil war.
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This campaign will take years to execute, officials say. But it is underway, both operationally and politically. Carter's recent trip to the region, which included stops here in Irbil, Baghdad and Turkey, set things in motion.
There's more in the article about how we're gonna attack the cities but this is the general plan.
Guess we're gonna crank up the heat over there.
What's the OT think?
This post was edited on 1/16/16 at 6:35 am
Posted on 1/16/16 at 6:48 am to TigerFanInSouthland
Poli Board
TLDR
TLDR
Posted on 1/16/16 at 7:14 am to TigerFanInSouthland
Send in the drones
Posted on 1/16/16 at 7:18 am to TigerFanInSouthland
This is all dependent on having a large ground force that takes direction. I don't know if they actually have.
Posted on 1/16/16 at 7:18 am to TigerFanInSouthland
Pretty cool article. A relative of mine actually took part in some training of Iraq and Kurds a few years back. According to him Abadi? is a lot better than Maliki at leading the army and reducing sectarian violence. They now have Sunni tribes in their side better than say a year ago. Taking Ramadi was a big step forward. Peshmerga are also decent fighters in the area. Even though Iraq and Kurds don't get along they really do need each other right now. The issue is what happens after ISIS is defeated. Hopefully they can take Mosul soon.
Posted on 1/16/16 at 7:31 am to TigerFanInSouthland
Why would we want to defeat our IS allies? They haven't defeated Assad yet.
Posted on 1/16/16 at 8:20 am to TigerFanInSouthland
So what are they going to do with the void created when Isis falls? There will just be another group of crazies to take their place.
Posted on 1/16/16 at 9:12 am to TigerFanInSouthland
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This post was edited on 6/6/20 at 1:34 pm
Posted on 1/16/16 at 9:21 am to TigerFanInSouthland
Meh.
I'm tired of deploying to the f'ing desert.
18 mo TDY to Hawaii here I come!
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I'm tired of deploying to the f'ing desert.
18 mo TDY to Hawaii here I come!
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Posted on 1/16/16 at 3:34 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
ugh.... I wish there was a better alternative.
This post was edited on 4/29/16 at 3:24 pm
Posted on 1/16/16 at 6:26 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Well great. Now ISIS knows our plan.
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