re: Pentagon's New Strategy for Defeating ISIS. LONG

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But SMAWs and AT-4's will do the trick against em. Assuming they aren't right on top of you. And you gotta remember, the gunners on the machine guns are specifically trained to have "accuracy by volume" they're putting a shitload of rounds on that target. A lot of the time they do stop the driver.

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We sent about 5,000 of those recently which was one of the reasons they were able to take back Ramadi. They didn't have them in first fall of Ramadi and Mosul. I would imagine machine gunners many times do stop them. I think its just having to deal with armored suicide bombers coming at you from all angles, many different vehicles at a time all throughout the day that gave the army issues. Plus poor command, from several accounts though, many Iraqi soldiers wanted to stay and fight, the head guys were the one's that called for retreat.

Also, my in-law that helped train over there said in many cases, their regular foot soldiers were better trained then some of their commanders, who were only commanders b/c they had been in the army longer but never had any real training.

Saying all that, I understand the U.S. army was able to defeat them dealing with suicide bombers and IED's and such. Obviously, big difference between our military and Iraq. We are the best, and they are, well, nowhere close.