"Here’s everything the U.S. military has hit with airstrikes" Topic

…in Iraq.

"The United States is closing in on its 100th airstrike in Iraq since Aug. 8, when President Obama authorized military action against a variety of militant targets affiliated with the Islamic State. The details have come in news releases issued nearly every day since, incremental reminders that the U.S. military is waging a new war with no end in sight.

What has been hit, though? As the strikes continue, grasping the totality has become increasingly difficult. To get a better handle on it, Checkpoint compiled a spreadsheet — available in Google Docs here — breaking down all of the targets as U.S. Central Command has described them. Among the patterns to emerge:…"
Full article and video here
link

Amicalement
Armand

Ah the Washington Compost, ever faithful servant.
Don't we have a warehouse or two full of cluster munitions and fuel air explosives waiting to be utilized?

85 "vehicles" in 100 missions. Are we supposed to be impressed?
The pilots must feel somewhat frustrated with what look to be illogical restrictions placed upon them. The ROI for lack of a better term must be awful.

The Toyota pickup isn't the problem. It's the in, on and around it.

DM

Well based on the current geo-political environment and situation, fear of collateral damage, etc. … We should be glad there were 100 missions flown and 85 vehicles destroyed … I believe they call it a "measured" approach … We'll have to wait and see how things play out 6 months to a years from now … Hopefully these tactics and techniques will attrite/slow up/stop …

Agree with you my friend.

Amicalement
Armand

I dunno, I'm starting to think it's time to treat ISIS like the nation it claims to be. Hasn't the declared war on the US?

Time to take off the kid gloves and

I'm not sure the spreadsheet is much use, since "Toyota pick-up" is one thing, but "Toyota pick-up carrying command group" is quite another thing.

U.S. Launches More Airstrikes Against Islamic State Fighters In Iraq

"The U.S. military launched airstrikes targeting ISIS fighters around a key dam in western Iraq on Sunday, the Pentagon said.

It carried out the airstrikes near Haditha Dam at the request of Iraq, according to Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary.

If the terror group seized the dam -- the second-largest in the country -- it would prove catastrophic. It provides water to millions of people in western and southern Iraq.

The U.S. also fears the militants could use the water to flood villages and seize control of the nation's lucrative electricity industry…"
Full article here
link

Amicalement
Armand

Iraq's Shi'ite Militia, Kurds Use U.S. Air Strikes To Further Own Agendas.

"A small group of people pick through putrefying human remains laid out on plastic sheets by the side of a road in northern Iraq, searching for any trace of missing friends and relatives.

Some had brought spades to help dig up the mass grave near Suleiman Beg after the town was retaken from Sunni Islamic State militants who held the area until last week.

"They (Islamic State) slaughtered him simply because he was Shi'ite," said Jomaa Jabratollah, hauling the remnants of his friend, a truck driver, into a coffin, having identified him from the lighter in his breast pocket. "We must take revenge"…"
Full article here
link

Amicalement
Armand

US Airstrikes Have Knocked Out 162 ISIL Vehicles.

"
Ahead of President Obama's address to the nation on combating ISIL, the Pentagon said Wednesday that U.S. warplanes had conducted 154 airstrikes to date in Iraq that hit a total of 212 targets, including 162 vehicles.

The Pentagon also said that U.S. troops in Iraq now numbered about 1,043, plus about 100 others in the Baghdad Office of Security and Cooperation for weapons sales, for a total of about 1,143 to guard against the extremists of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

The total number included 754 troops providing security for U.S. personnel and facilities at the U.S. Embassy in Baghad and at the Baghdad airport, and 289 manning Joint Operations Centers in Baghdad and the Kurdish capital of Irbil and also advising the Iraqi security forces and Kurdish peshmerga forces…"
Full article here.
link

Amicalement
Armand

Mapping U.S. Air Strikes In Iraq

"As the United States' air war in Iraq moves into its second month, there are a lot of ways to crunch the data that has been released. One is to track what has been hit. Another, depicted above, is to pay attention to where the bombs and missiles have been landing.

As this map shows, the U.S. military has dropped ordnance around the Mosul Dam at least 94 times since President Obama first authorized airstrikes in Iraq on Aug. 7. At least 29 more airstrikes have been conducted around Irbil, the northern Iraqi city where the United States maintains a consulate and a joint military operations center that has had a hand in coordinating a U.S. assessing and advising mission. Hundreds of U.S. service members were sent there earlier this year to get a sense for the capabilities and needs of Iraqi and Kurdish military units and how the Pentagon could best help…"

Full article here
link

Amicalement
Armand