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While The World Watches IS, Iran Quietly Advances

2014-10-19

[IsraelTimes] While the entire world follows breathlessly the battles between Kurdish forces and the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
in Kobani, the Syrian city on the border between Turkey and Syria, Iran is slowly completing an impressive takeover of Yemen.

On Tuesday, Houthi

Posted by:trailing wife

#4 IMO the real issue here is any likely Saudi-led GCC mil response to the new Shia stronghold in Yemen, or alternat the lack of same by the GCC which will induce one or more of its nervousy twitchy Sunni Member-States [read, QATAR] to ask for foreign or outside mil help agz the Shias = Houthi rebs from the ISIS/ISIL + Qaeda Boyz, etal.

WHAT IS GLOBALIST OBAMA ANDOR HIS POSSIBLY SIMIL GLOBALIST POTUS SUCCESSOR AFTER JAN. 2017 GOING TO DO THEN???

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-10-19 22:11

#3 Coded sheet of semaphore flags, change periodically.

"All that for a flag?"

Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-10-19 18:01

#2 Bomb and kill everything that approaches the vacated phase lines in turn. Ideally the same phase lines [kill boxes] can be used repeatedly, somewhat like the billows of an accordion.

A battle strategy the Romans were pretty good at, too.

Posted by: Jaith White2498 2014-10-19 14:38

#1 In order to create targets, intelligence is needed. And without the presence of intelligence personnel and special forces on the ground, there is not sufficient information, it turns out, to stop the advance of IS.

Here's a time-tested tactic with minimal battlefield intelligence required. Orchestrate a Kurdish strategic withdrawl using 'phase lines' Bomb and kill everything that approaches the vacated phase lines in turn. Ideally the same phase lines [kill boxes] can be used repeatedly, somewhat like the billows of an accordion.

Posted by: Besoeker 2014-10-19 07:19

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