Would it be for the US to take back Mosul, Fallujah and Raqqa? Given that the air power is already there, how much more quickly would US troops neutralize these cities?
>>76162756
Not very hard. US SPECOPS is already on the ground, but they acting as more of a scalpel, whereas the Iraqi Army is more of the hammer.
Easier than the first time.
Right now the commitment is minimal. If we deployed conventional infantry (Army or Marines), there would be casualties which would cause butthurt stateside.
Pic related - Iraqi and USMC COIN operations from 2003 (I think - based on their gear and uniforms).
Not hard but what is the damn point?
>>76162756
Not hard at all. But do you intend to stay there forever? Because the moment they leave, ISIS moves back in. This is what happened in Iraq the last time. These people won't fight western militaries in open combat, because it's suicide. They'll just use insurgency tactics and play the waiting game.
>>76163950
Exactly.
It's important for the Iraqi army to standup for themselves. The sooner they remove ISIS, the sooner they recover their national pride, which *should* lead to more regional stability.
>>76162756
Rules of Engagement would be the problem. Total war style bomb the shit out of everything, no problem.
Our current leadership wants us to coddle the enemy, to hand out lollipops to the women and children who promptly shoot our men in the backs.
Committing full on ground forces would also show the public that the faggot in chief failed in his withdrawal of troops.
That piece of shit cares only about his public image.
Troops currently killed in Afg aren't even "killed in combat" because that sack of shit "ended the war"
>>76162756
Extremely hard if you talk about operations similar to the Iraq occupation.
Fallujah is the easiest. It has already been encircled for many months and the Iraqi army will be able to do that in the next weeks.
Raqqa is the historical ISIS capital, but it is actually not a really big town and the surrounding is flat. The US could probably take this one within a month or two with just 15,000 people.
But then there is Mosul. It is a huge city with over a million in terms of population. This is unprecedented for the US army in the last decades. I don't even know when the last time was the US tried to take such a large city with fighters willing to actually hold such a city at all costs. Probably the last time was during WW2.
If you would accept heavy losses and an actual war (like WW1 or WW2 stlye), then the current US military would probably overrun half of the middle east like germany did with poland and france. Many casualties, but gets the job done. WW1 could have been prevented if they really tried, WW2 could have been prevented even way more easier, you just really want to. And today, the US could flatten everything in that area even without nukes, you just have to want to.
>>76162756
Trading American lives for a piece of shit city in a desert in the middle of nowhere.
I guarantee you that 90% of Americans can't even find those cities on a map. And you want to send people to die there? Bitch plz.
>>76164546
>Rules of Engagement
wew, what meme are you going to mention next? international law?
>>76164546
Yep. RoE has been messing our shit up since 1993.
Here's a good video about shit RoE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf0h24ii7XY
>>76165054
It boggles the mind how people can justify limited warfare against those who would use any tactic without blinking an eye. It's a recipe for disaster and always has been.
>>76162756
Waste of resources. US should take over the places in Iraq that are necessary to secure and operate their oil fields.
>>76162756
>Would it be for the US to take back Mosul, Fallujah and Raqqa? Given that the air power is already there, how much more quickly would US troops neutralize these cities?
we're going to make iraq do it, because fuck them
>>76164960
as SSGT McClintock was killed by Taliban, the armed AC-130 overhead was not allowed to engage the enemy, because that would be "fighting a war"
Fuck off you Brit piece of shit, I hope a muzzie chops your head off in the streets.
>>76162756
Same as last time
The problem being you'll have to be there for years to stop it happening again
They already kicked Americans ass in iraq
>>76162756
If the UN wasn't watching we would use phosphorus again and melt all the rats again like in 2006, they're using human shields again and now we will let the local militias deal with it, so we don't look bad on the news again.
>>76162756
Coming from a degenerate mudslime... don't you have some boys to fuck and girls to drop acid on? Go back to worshipping a pedophile inbred, I can't wait for ultra conservatives to take control in the next decade and glass the middle eastern nations when they finally attack us again, we all know Europe will never have the balls. America has used nuclear weapons before, and we won't need half the excuse to do it again if the ragheads keep up their bullshit.
