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Posted on 05/31/2016 6:19:07 PM PDT by BlackVeil
Creeping escalation characterizes U.S. military involvement in Syria. What had been fifty American troops on the ground expanded to three hundred beginning last month. Official descriptions of this contingent as not being directly involved in combat become increasingly difficult to swallow as piecemeal reports of the Americans' activity become available.
The latest detail, which is disturbing on multiple grounds, is that some of the U.S. troops have been wearing on their uniforms the insignia of the Kurdish People's Protection Unit, or YPG, ...
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Conspiracy ping!
Ping to an article which may interest you. News from Syria. Deceptions - and a slide into military intervention.
The latest detail, which is disturbing on multiple grounds, is that some of the U.S. troops have been wearing on their uniforms the insignia of the Kurdish People’s Protection Unit, or YPG, ... ............................ I guess they considerate an honor to be with the main fighting units in Syria and Iraq. Outside of the Kurds, who’d want to fight for any of the others?
What I think is more important than a half dozen of the boys swapping patches with the unit they are embedded with, for team building camaraderie, is the fact that ISIS is now getting its ass kicked all up and down the whole Euphrates River. At once.
We got a new commanding General in CENTCOM two months ago, and we are already fighting a whole different war today. Those Special Operators can call in and direct our air strikes, and our air strikes have surged - in number and effectiveness. They can also exploit battlefield intelligence, which also now seems to be happening.
Today, all of ISIS’ main stronghold are under significant, often overwhelming, assault (Raqqa, Fallujah, Mosul, Manbij). They can not effectively reinforce anywhere, and are losing ground everywhere. At once. Critical lines of supply and communication appear likely to be cut in a matter of days or weeks. ISIS is facing a rapidly developing strategic defeat.
War is a dirty business. ISIS loves sawing off prisoners heads and posting the video online. They gleefully executed prisoners by the hundreds (for being Shia, or Christian) as they captured areas, and gleefully took the women and girls as sex slaves. They formally re-instituted slavery in the areas they ruled. And they openly declare that the whole of humanity must submit to their rule, or die, and urge all muslims to kill us where we live.
So if guys are out successfully destroying ISIS at a rapid clip, I am willing to laugh off patch-swapping on their part. ISIS must be destroyed, and I am grateful and supportive to all who are out there making it happen.
It’s one thing to swap patches when meeting or training with allied forces in their country or ours, or even in a host allied country. But when you’re in a war zone, it’s a violation of a whole lot of laws and regulations. I have a bunch of patches from my travels. But when I was in theater, that never happened. I either wore my authorized patches, or if we went on a mission, I went sanitized, but with my military ID and dog tags. I’m not going to come down too hard on these guys, but what they did was not authorized.
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Yes, thanks - this is a big deal but few get it. The Syria and Iraq civil wars pretty much shows the west’s diplomats and intel people are clueless about the region after all these decades.
Very true. I wonder though if this WAS authorised, as part of some black op or other. There are some murky policies in place.
I agree completely with you. Further, I would say, they are either clueless ... or they have clues and plans which they are not sharing with the rest of us.
That whole refugee influx to Europe was planned - the cutting off of rations for Syrian refugees in 2015, the opening of Turkey’s borders to one and all at the same time, the prior removal of Gaddafi’s govt who was repressing the people smugglers of Benghazi.
This is a strategy, but we have not been told about it.
Our spec ops teams don’t want to be noticed by the locals who might tip off the enemy.
ISIS is known for concentrated force attacks in order to capture our operators.
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