[volunbeer]

With air superiority for the U.S. and adequate numbers of aircraft and artillery present you have to be insane to attack U.S. forces head on. I think there was obviously some miscommunication on the Russian end of this as they did not appear to realize their “mercenaries” were part of the attacking force.

Mattis knows his business. I wish he would fumigate the PC crap from the military, but we can at least be confident that he will aggressively act when necessary.

[Zhang Fei]

[With air superiority for the U.S. and adequate numbers of aircraft and artillery present you have to be insane to attack U.S. forces head on.]

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They were hoping to get lucky. They had overwhelming numerical superiority and the cover of night. Before the combo of thermal imaging, live comms between army and supporting air and precision strike munitions, it would have been a walkover for the attacking Syrian/Russian force. Their preferred outcome would have been what happened to the Green Berets in Niger.

[WASCWatch]

There was no miscommunication. We contacted the Russian government, and the Russians said it wasn’t them; So it was game on. The Russians had no reason to complain; and they didn’t.

[firebrand]

BS. The Russians knew exactly what was going on. Everyone’s playing the proxy game. Puppet warfare.

[lodi90]

With air superiority for the U.S. and adequate numbers of aircraft and artillery present you have to be insane to attack U.S. forces head on. I think there was obviously some miscommunication on the Russian end of this as they did not appear to realize their “mercenaries” were part of the attacking force.

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Or just arrogance. This battle is reminiscent of the first big battle at the Donetsk airport during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. There an over confident Chechen GRU unit was cut to shreds by the Ukrainian air force. I doubt these Russkies expected to get hammered by U.S. air power like they did.