Antiwar.com keeps tallies of reported deaths. As we know from the Viet Nam war, these aren’t always reliable. But they show about 8,000 ISIS militants dead since the start of the year. Whether you’re talking the 30,000 core fighters the US DoD refers to, or the 200,000 supporters that the Kurds claim ISIS has, those 8,000 deaths have got to be significant.
The Western media seems to be acting like a cheerleader for ISIS, making a handful of recruits here, a handful there sound like a steady torrent of recruits, in some cases outright claiming that they are replacing fallen ISIS fighters as quickly as the Kurds can kill them. That’s BS. Even if the raw numbers bear out such claims, it’s the experienced fighters that are dying, replaced by idiot yokuls, and the other fighters have to be noticing their comrades dying in waves and starting to feel like maybe their god isn’t behind them after all.
There were reports from Kobane, that toward the end of the battle ISIS was throwing raw recruits in, who were shot dead real quick, and blowed up real good.
The big bleeding is scheduled for this Summer, to liberate Mosul.
High Intensity Warfare, here we come. Can you say Allahu Akhbar?