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SYSOP    9/19/2014 7:06:13 AM
 
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Spiky    Casualties   9/19/2014 9:38:47 AM
"Meanwhile there will be American troops in combat. These will primarily be special operations troops from the army (Special Forces, Rangers), marines, navy (SEALs) and air force (para-rescue).".........which means there will be loss of life and limbs, especially if the management of the battle operations and strategy is politically driven.
 
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WarNerd       9/19/2014 1:27:00 PM
It is claimed that air strikes in Syria will require individual Whitehouse approval.  This report has been sort of dismissed by the Whitehouse Press Office, depending on how you parse their mendaciously worded reply.
 
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dogberry       9/19/2014 1:46:15 PM
Fuel cost are low. The $2 million per sortie is weapons cost?
 
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WarNerd       9/20/2014 4:46:07 AM
Fuel cost are low.

The $2 million per sortie is weapons cost?
Logistics support mostly.  I believe that these are Navy aircraft.
 
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trenchsol       9/20/2014 6:09:59 AM
Of course, Assad does not care for civilian casualties. His main problem is that his faction is ethnic minority. Civilian casualties work in his favor.
 
It is frightening when you think how easily large groups of people get misguided by idiots. Take Jihad groups in Syria. They save Assad. Little more then year ago, Assad's military was about to be destroyed by US airstrikes. Today US and France are helping Assad by bombing his enemies. All thanks to stupidity of Jihad groups. They worked hard against their own interests and they are going to take lot of people who support their cause down with them. Once IS and AQ affiliates, like Nusra, gets destroyed the winners (Assad and Iraqi government) will arrange a bloodshed of biblical proportions. There will be international protests, sanctions maybe, but it is not going to change anything.
 
Not that I care too much, because a lot of people down there dream about knocking on my door with AK rifle some day (figuratively speaking), but one gets scared thinking how people can be easily misguided into tragedy.
 
 
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CJH       9/20/2014 3:21:45 PM
Question - is this situation one in which mercenaries are the most appropriate type of combatant?
 
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WarNerd       9/20/2014 6:12:18 PM
Question - is this situation one in which mercenaries are the most appropriate type of combatant?
No. Mercenaries are appropriate to small scale combat, squad to company sized units at most.  These are large scale combat with battalion sized units.  You could still have some mercenaries, but handling things like training, logistics, intelligence, and maintenance that the Arabs just can't do right.
 
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avatar3    The End of Syria   9/22/2014 10:13:01 PM
  ISIS has once again split off and destroyed a chunk of Syria. Last month the Yadzi's, this month the Kurds,. Piece by piece the productive villages and farms of this  ancient land  have gone to waste,  the people driven out and turned into stateless beggars.These are the ageless tactics of terror, they work because they have always worked and until such time as someone says "stop" they will continue to work. This pattern of human behavior is as old as history, oppress the poor, murder the old, rape the young, destroy, rob and enslave. Who is a fault?  Who cares? Blame who you want, but the fault is squarely on ISIS - murders run amuck. They don't need courts, compassionate understanding, jail time or any of those things which they have trashed. THEY NEED DEATH! We who are capable should give it to them. Syria is no longer a functioning country, it is just a place on the map, a place were we can stop the Islamic madness with something they understand, an ISIS graveyard. Treat them like they treat us, take no prisoners, kill their wounded, leave their dead unburied, seek out their families in safe countries and prosecute their wealth.  
 
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avatar3    Addendum   9/23/2014 4:24:00 AM
Not 10 minutes after I wrote the previous piece coalition Air Forces struck ISIS within the Syrian borders.
 
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avatar3       9/25/2014 3:04:05 AM
More then 24 hours have gone by since the first coalition airstrike and 3 things are obvious:
 
1) Once again our military has demonstrated they are the only proactive planners/organizers in our government. Is it any wonder that I love these  guys? 
 
2) Except for France, our NATO allies are doing what they excel at, talk.
 
3) Administration lightweights are talking about arming and training FSA types.  They have yet to say who, what, where, when. or how.
 
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