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‘No Plans at This Point’ to Assign Code Name for Syria, Iraq Operations
Seapower ^ | 9/25/14 | Richard Burgess

Posted on 09/27/2014 2:00:04 PM PDT by tellw

ARLINGTON, Va. — Five days into the U.S. and coalition air strikes against targets of the Islamic Levant (ISIL) inside Syria, and six weeks since the United States began flying air strikes against I Department of Defense (DoD) has yet to assign a code name to the operations.

During a briefing to reporters Sept. 25 at the Pentagon, RADM John Kirby, spokesman for the DoD, said he knew “of no plans at this point” to assign the operation a code name.

DoD and NATO routinely assign code names to combat operations, such as Operation Iraqi Freedom for the Iraq War from March 2003 to August 2010, and even the stability operations in Iraq from September to December 2011, Operation New Dawn. The U.S. air campaign against Libya in 2011 was called Operation Odyssey Dawn, succeeded by NATO’s Operation Unified Protector. Even very short-term operations, such as Operation Praying Mantis against Iran in April 1988, often are assigned names.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Syria
KEYWORDS: isil; isis; operationbombing; operationbombingis; operationbombingisil; operationbombingisis; syria
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To: tellw

Let’s call it a Crusade.


41 posted on 09/27/2014 2:53:44 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Dilbert San Diego; All

Does not naming the operation keep our troops from earning ribbons? Just curious. I pray not.


42 posted on 09/27/2014 2:53:56 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: tellw

Operation Mom Jeans


43 posted on 09/27/2014 3:01:08 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: tellw

Operation: Sandtrap


44 posted on 09/27/2014 3:25:29 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (You have entered an invalid birthday)
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To: tellw

Operation: Pitching Wedge


45 posted on 09/27/2014 3:26:02 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (You have entered an invalid birthday)
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To: tellw

It isn’t war, but we’re dispatching a division HQ from Fort Riley to Iraq for command and control. You don’t need a division HQ element to direct a few hundred “advisers” (read: SF personnel).

The real plan is becoming very clear. The JCS have told Obama that the Kurds can hold in the north (and even regain a limited amount of territory), but the Iraqi Army is a shambles and there is no guarantee they can keep ISIS out of Baghdad. Members of the JCS have also informed the CINC that without American boots on the ground, there’s a very good chance that ISIS will take over all of Iraq, except for Kurdistan.

Obama has no stomach for a ground war, but he doesn’t want to be known as the President who lost Iraq, either. The Division HQ will become the command element of up to three brigade combat teams, which will deploy to Iraq after election day; probably one to secure the Baghdad area, and two to jump start an offensive in the north. It’s no coincidence the division HQ element was announced the same week that the Indiana ANG announced it was sending a squadron of A-10s to the Middle East.

The increase in deployments will slowly increase, and the big announcement will come in early November. Until then, Barry will stick to his claims of “no [more] boots on the ground in hopes of increasing the Dim turnout in November.


46 posted on 09/27/2014 3:32:55 PM PDT by ExNewsExSpook
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To: tellw

Operation Hop Slop


47 posted on 09/27/2014 3:39:36 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Operation Help al Qaeda Against Americans


48 posted on 09/27/2014 3:45:49 PM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: tellw
Operation Blow A Muslim Apart. OBAMA
49 posted on 09/27/2014 4:04:42 PM PDT by justrepublican (Screaming like a "Vexatious requester" at a Wellstone memorial...........)
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To: Hugin

Operation Tee Time.


50 posted on 09/27/2014 4:48:45 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: tellw

If it succeeds, it will be Operation October Surprise - the strong foreign policy that drags Obama out of the political abyss and saves the Senate for the Democrats. If it fails, it will be Operation Bush’s Legacy - yet another effort by our brilliant leader to minimize the damage done by GWB.


51 posted on 09/27/2014 5:46:19 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: tellw

operation junior varsity


52 posted on 09/27/2014 6:25:04 PM PDT by matt1234 (Obama fled. People bled. Iraq 2014.)
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To: tellw

Operation Caliphate Restoration?


53 posted on 09/27/2014 7:17:00 PM PDT by SisterK (trapped behind enemy lines)
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To: tellw; blueyon; KitJ; T Minus Four; xzins; CMS; The Sailor; ab01; txradioguy; Jet Jaguar; ...
Active Duty ping.

Difficult to write performance reports/medals for accomplishments on an operation that cannot be accurately named.

54 posted on 09/27/2014 7:20:49 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Resist in place.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Winner.


55 posted on 09/27/2014 7:21:37 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Resist in place.)
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To: Jane Long

See post 54.


56 posted on 09/27/2014 7:24:33 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Resist in place.)
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To: tellw

“Operation Here’s a list of what we won’t do, and tactics we won’t use.”


57 posted on 09/27/2014 7:27:12 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Jet Jaguar

Thanks. That’s what I thought.

I’d of missed it, without the ping ;)


58 posted on 09/27/2014 7:28:36 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: tellw

Operation Salam alakim


59 posted on 09/27/2014 7:34:57 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: tellw

Operation #BootsOffTheGround


60 posted on 09/27/2014 7:40:48 PM PDT by mikrofon (#Hashtag Diplomacy)
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