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2007-06-22 Iraq

Operation Commando Eagle starts off strong

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Posted by Fred 2007-06-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 Speed is your friend, but unlike in football, battle speed can be coached. The key to this campaign will be how fast we can follow up opportunities - and that we recognize the traps that only look like opportunities. Hope we have some reserve spear points, because these boys are going to be tired in a few days - but their enemy will be even more tired, and ripe for roll-up. When you get your enemy on the run you don't want to slow down and let him regroup.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-06-22 07:54|| 2007-06-22 07:54|| Front Page Top

#2 More bad boys being 'detained', eh ?
I hope when they are finished answering questions, they are detained in Antartica, where death by natural causes is a common ending. I just can't see ever releasing them back into society without shock treatments to snap them outta jihad mode.

Posted by wxjames 2007-06-22 10:31|| 2007-06-22 10:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Whoa! Glenmore got 'em insights going. Make the enemy more tired! I like it!

Posted by Shipman 2007-06-22 11:37|| 2007-06-22 11:37|| Front Page Top

#4 cache containing four AK-47s, a 60mm mortar tube with three rounds, an SKS rigged with sniper optics, three bolt-action rifles, a camcorder with tapes, a roll of copper wire, 20 homemade grenades, four ski masks, 75 CDs of propaganda and terror techniques instructing methods to commit kidnappings and to shoot down "
Is'nt it a waste of time to inventory such a small amount like this. Would'nt it be more efficent to just blow the weapons up, send the cd's for interpretaion, and move on?

Posted by plainslow 2007-06-22 13:26|| 2007-06-22 13:26|| Front Page Top

#5 At the sub-tactical level, yeah.

But I'm told we've uncovered some useful patterns by correlating data of this sort across wider areas.

Posted by lotp 2007-06-22 13:33|| 2007-06-22 13:33|| Front Page Top

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