Posted on Aug 7, 2015
Have the results achieved thus far in Operation Inherent Resolve been worth the cost?
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In the year since American bombs first dropped onto Islamic State targets, the campaign has had a limited impact on the overall numbers of the terrorists in the fight, but the airmen who have flown the missions say they have aided the people who are defending themselves against the group.
Since Aug. 8, 2014, the U.S. has dropped more than 5,600 bombs in the campaign. The operation has cost a total of $3.21 billion, or about $9.4 million per day, as of late July.
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http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/2015/08/07/operation-inherent-resolve-one-year-after-first-bombs-fell/31222041/
Since Aug. 8, 2014, the U.S. has dropped more than 5,600 bombs in the campaign. The operation has cost a total of $3.21 billion, or about $9.4 million per day, as of late July.
Read more at ...
http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/2015/08/07/operation-inherent-resolve-one-year-after-first-bombs-fell/31222041/
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I think it's hard to gauge it's overall success. The ISIS doesn't have the same sort of targets a conventional military would have.
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Is that what they are calling it? "Operation Inherent Resolve"? I would have come up with something more fitting like "Operation Tragic Irony" Or "Operation This is What Happens When You Leave Without a Plan".
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SSG (Join to see)
Our plan was to leave a force of ~10,000 to train and advise the Iraqi Army and keep up counter-terrorism efforts. Former PM Maliki, an anti-Sunni Iranian-crony, rejected all of the proposed plans and fomented a bountiful environment for AQI/ISIL to grow and become what it is now.
I'd like to hear your thoughts on what our government could have done without Iraq's endorsement.
I'd like to hear your thoughts on what our government could have done without Iraq's endorsement.
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SGT William Howell
It is quite simple. COME UP WITH A PLAN. There are people that have attended War College that get paid to make plans.
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SGT William Howell
It is very easy. The Iraqis had no business being in charge of shit. When they were able to pay us back the millions it took to liberate that shithole then they get to run it. I was there. If you would have asked any PVT if 10000 advisors would have worked hey would have looked at you like you had a dick in the middle of your forehead. So they did not have a REAL plan.
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Well I think it has been marginal at best GySgt Wayne A. Ekblad. Certainly some high value targets have been taken out, some prisoners dramatically recovered , some intel has been able to be extracted from captured stuff and people and in some cases areas that ISIS expanded to have been retaken - mostly by the peshmerga and other Kurdish assets despite the intents of Turkey to interfere. The Obama administration wasted time and money arming and training the Syrian opposition to topple Assad - this backfired in many ways including most recently their betrayal by us and their targeting by Russians.
When the influx of recruits into ISIS becomes negative then strategic victory will be something which is potentially possible. Drying up the flow of funding into ISIS and buyers for black market goods from what ISIS confiscates, steals, and uses blackmail to acquire will dry up their thug appeal.
When the influx of recruits into ISIS becomes negative then strategic victory will be something which is potentially possible. Drying up the flow of funding into ISIS and buyers for black market goods from what ISIS confiscates, steals, and uses blackmail to acquire will dry up their thug appeal.
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