Delta killed 12 terrorists and engaged in hand to hand combat. Delta operators are the baddest men on the planet.
The fucking balls on those delta guys. The entire country is a war zone and they just fly in and take out one of the highest ranking members of ISIS and fly back out
pretty good read http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/16/talking-bout-the-true-believers.html
It's been really tough to get intelligence on ISIS, I'm guessing that's somewhat changing. They've had some success shooting down SAA helicopters but we're about 1000 levels above them militarily.
I imagine the reason they chose to send people in there for this raid was in hopes we'd get some quality intel out of it. May not have gotten the goat fucker alive but we definitely got his computer and all sorts of other stuff. And we got his wife from one report I read.
Yeah I assume we've waited for this chance to get the most inside intel. Who knows how much info his wife will give up. I wonder if us or the UK could get any intel from returning brides who realize they fucked up going to Syria. Big story from the UK about 2 girls on the run who'll be killed if ISIS catches them.
Yeah, reportedly they got his laptop and cell phone(s). Hoping to get a bunch of info on ISIS's oil dealings and high-ranking members.
ISIS launched a large offensive against Palmyra, lotta ancient artifacts and buildings there. Sounds like the SAA has done what it could to make sure artifacts don't wind up in ISIS hands. Rami @RamiAlLolah 2h2 hours ago #BreakingNews #ISIS launching another huge offensive; reports of massive clashes near Security of State building in #Palmyra.. #ISIS #Syria 45 retweets 19 favorites They sent a large convoy from Raqqa that apparently arrived safely. We won't deal with Assad which is probably why we didn't strike the convoy. Jack Shahine @jackshahine Local reports Large #IS military convoy started off from #Raqqa heading south towards #Syrian Desert #Palmyra leaded by Abu Suleiman Jezrawi
@cahitstorm: Near Kezwane mountain (West kurdistan) coalition airstrikes destroyed a 15 vehicle convoy of daeshbags. Source: ypg spokeperson
Christiane Amanpour @camanpour 40m40 minutes ago 6,000 Iraqi forces fell to 150 ISIS fighters in #Ramadi, former adviser to U.S. Central Command @akhedery tells me: http://cnn.it/1JUjMCg
Did you see all the shit they abandoned? Like 60 humvees, a dozen tanks, a bunch of artillery. Fucking stop giving the Iraqi army weapons
I now feel less special about getting about that percentage against them in Gulf War Episode I and II
They have to be least effective state sponsored army in the world today. Now we have to destroy more shit that we paid for, built, and gave them.
It's unreal how bad they are. Stop arming terrorists in Syria and the iraqi's in southern Iraq. I'd love to see what the Kurds could do with 2 dozen tanks and 100 humvees
Beirut (AFP) - Air strikes by a US-led coalition against the Islamic State group in northeastern Syria have killed around 170 jihadists in the past 48 hours, a monitoring group said Tuesday. "The jihadists were killed in the past 48 hours in the province of Hasakeh, nearly all of them in very intense air strikes by the international coalition which is helping Kurdish forces in the area," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. http://news.yahoo.com/us-led-strikes-syria-kill-170-jihadists-48-170206220.html
We were. US had heavy air support in Ramadi, no ground troops worth a damn. US warplanes carried out 165 air strikes in and around Ramadi in support of Iraqi government forces just last month, according to Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Thomas D. Weidley, commander of the new US intervention in Iraq—“Operation Inherent Resolve.” Even more intensified bombing has taken place in the last few days. The air war, however, has failed to fundamentally alter the situation on the ground.
Yea that was not very effective air strikes if they couldn't stop 150-200 ISIS troops from taking the town. Or the number of ISIS was greatly understated.
Don't underestimate the ineptitude of the ISF. Shia militia are looking to counter attack with only 3,000 fighters. Although there were a large number of Iraqi security forces occupying Ramadi, most troops fled after ISIS fighters began their assault on the city center Sunday, leaving behind Humvees and armored vehicles supplied by the U.S. military, a separate senior U.S. military official told Fox News. "The Iraqi security forces were pushed out by a much smaller [ISIS] force," the official said.
I get that, I'm just saying if 100+ air strikes couldn't stop 150 fighters, that' not very efficient air strikes.
I've never read about so much military cowardice as I have with them and it's been going on for at least 2+ decades. they run from essentially everyone that's ever really put a foot forward and challenged them to battle.
With very very rare exceptions, air power alone cannot be decisive without at least some reliable ground component. And that's coming from an Air Force guy. And we're faaar from throwing the big airpower weapons at them as far as I know.
our air force, of course, famously known for its inefficiency in combat. cmon man, we clearly don't have the full picture here. it's not like we were playing whack-a-daesh and just sucked ass at the game.
We're also taking lead on coordinating everyone else's Air Forces. These joint operations are also subject to a lot of internal haggling between, what, the Jordanians, the Egyptians, the Lebanese whoever else., and not for nothing, but they tend to be pretty untrained and unpracticed, as 'cool' as it is to see jets fly.
Islamist rebels took the largest remaining SAA base in Idlib http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/syrian-rebels-take-largest-remaining-army-base-idlib-871512527 Vice trailer for documentary on rebel advances in Syria
Right but it hasn't been enough. They aren't providing close air support or ground troops. Bet Assad wishing he was receiving as much support as the rebels in Ukraine are receiving
There's only so much Iran and Russia can do. The SAA is pretty useless and undermanned, imagine the Iraqis without US equipment and technology. They've had to resort to forcing Iranian prisoners with little to no training to fight for Assad, hoping to soften up the rebels on the frontlines. Now the rebels have weapons like guided TOW missiles that can wipe out tanks in the open. Even the "invincible Tiger forces" led by Suheil Al Hassan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suheil_Al_Hassan are getting beaten. Assad still controls key areas and Alawite strongholds, if they're threatened then more Alawites will join in the fighting. They see Assad as the only one who can protect them from the jihadists.
Iran can't even openly send in ground troops and they've literally done everything else for Assad, no way Russia would do anything close to that.
Unlikely. It needed a lot of upkeep and training, and was a huge, huge set-up itself. If I remember correctly, it's because the area it blankets overlapped appreciably with Israel's air space
You're probably right and I know you've followed the war longer than me. Regardless, without Russian and Iranian support Assad would've been gone a long time ago.
If only Assad wasn't such a piece of shit we could've stopped this travesty from happening. SAA is so fucking useless.
At what point are American boots going to hit the ground? I know the politicos are saying it won't happen ( with the election around the corner ) but when ISIL wins and pushes it's boundaries and bloodshed, how long will the west hold out?