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2015-07-10 Iraq

Coalition planes destroy ISIS convoy, all militants killed: Kurdish commander

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Posted by Fred 2015-07-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 I'll bet everything I own there were no fluffy bunnies killed, either.

Posted by gorb 2015-07-10 00:03|| 2015-07-10 00:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh, thank goodness!!

Posted by Steven 2015-07-10 03:04|| 2015-07-10 03:04|| Front Page Top

#3 All the "convoys" could have been taken out like that.

Posted by newc 2015-07-10 03:39|| 2015-07-10 03:39|| Front Page Top

Posted by 2015-07-10 03:59|| 2015-07-10 03:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Any bets on the brass hat authorizing this attack being forced to resign anon?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-07-10 04:15|| 2015-07-10 04:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Any bets on the brass hat authorizing this attack being forced to resign anon?

No, my bets are on continued pressure from SOF elements and a bewildered media after recent televised footage of multiple ISIS convoy running around the battlespace. Harmful to the larger narrative to have a political effort appear, not only notional, but totally ineffective.

No ribbon for the chili. Still edible however.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-07-10 04:22|| 2015-07-10 04:22|| Front Page Top

#7 But that was effective, Besoeker---an unpardonable sin!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-07-10 04:44|| 2015-07-10 04:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Attacking and destroying enemy LOC's (lines of communication) is not a new concept of warfare, and we certainly do have the technology and wherewithal

I had a very, very minor role in the HoD op. Suffice it to say that initiative at the scene had a major role at the start, and that it went into a rolling-snowball effect from there.

Today - technology and wherewithal, yes. Other factors, not so much.

Posted by Pappy 2015-07-10 10:39|| 2015-07-10 10:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Cab ranks find 'em Pappy?

Posted by Shipman 2015-07-10 12:55|| 2015-07-10 12:55|| Front Page Top

#10 I wonder. . . Reservist A-10s?

Posted by Old Patriot 2015-07-10 14:38|| 2015-07-10 14:38|| Front Page Top

#11 HoD: VA-155 from the mighty USS Ranger. All weather attack Skypigs carried more ordnance under a single wing than an entire flight of Lawn Darts.

Bonus was real time video fed courtesy of CNN, who has since lost their way.

Posted by USN, Ret 2015-07-10 15:27|| 2015-07-10 15:27|| Front Page Top

#12 Took out the lead vehicles, then went back and bombed the rearmost ones.

Then the Navy threw in everything and anything that had wings and could carry a bomb...

Posted by Pappy 2015-07-10 17:18|| 2015-07-10 17:18|| Front Page Top

#13 Hat tip to you, whatever your level of participation.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-07-10 17:21|| 2015-07-10 17:21|| Front Page Top

#14 Yeah, the media made a big stink about 'piling on'. The HoD was small compared to what Ike and boys did at Falaise. Most of the HoD pics don't show a lot of bodies. The Falaise one's do. IIRC Ike said something about walking a mile without your feet touching the ground because of all the corpses, human and (draft) animals. Should have shoved that back into the faces of the little snowflakes at the press briefing.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-07-10 20:28|| 2015-07-10 20:28|| Front Page Top

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