Tango01 | 23 Sep 2016 10:17 p.m. PST |
"US and allied warplanes have sunk over 100 ISIS boats, destroying 65 of them in September alone, according to the international military coalition. While Iraq is nearly entirely land-locked, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that cross that country are navigable, and ISIS has been using watercraft for a variety of purposes, including transporting fighters and conducting improvised explosive attacks. The US-led anti-ISIS coalition provided CNN with video of a September 10 airstrike against an ISIS tactical unit aboard a boat near Bayji, Iraq…."
Main page. link 65…?… that is a lot of boats sunk in just one month.! Amicalement Armand |
Mako11 | 23 Sep 2016 11:30 p.m. PST |
Good practice for sinking the small boats of others in the region too. |
Mithmee | 23 Sep 2016 11:40 p.m. PST |
65…?… that is a lot of boats sunk in just one month.! Not really if the majority of them look like the ones in the picture. Probably claiming a brunch that were drag on land. The key aspect is were anyone in the boats when they were sanked? |
Legion 4 | 24 Sep 2016 9:20 a.m. PST |
Any assets Daesh loses is a plus … any assets … and in large numbers if possible. |
piper909 | 24 Sep 2016 10:03 a.m. PST |
"Navy" is sort of a grandiose term for these. I bet the Taliban also has a "navy." Or calls their collection of trucks and tractors an "armored division." |
Tango01 | 24 Sep 2016 10:30 a.m. PST |
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Mako11 | 24 Sep 2016 10:31 a.m. PST |
Hope they don't hear about that spray-on rubber sold in a can. |
Outlaw Tor | 24 Sep 2016 4:53 p.m. PST |
Probably claiming a brunch that were drag on land.The key aspect is were anyone in the boats when they were sanked? Really?? So a late lunch for cross dressers and "was" anyone in the boats when they were WHAT? Sorry, but that is a funny case of non-editing. |
coopman | 25 Sep 2016 7:47 p.m. PST |
I wonder how much money we spent to convert that little boat into dust? |
Charlie 12 | 25 Sep 2016 8:54 p.m. PST |
I wonder how much money we spent to convert that little boat into dust? Who cares? If it kills off some ISIS troops and screws up their ability to move others then its money well spent. |
Legion 4 | 26 Sep 2016 7:21 a.m. PST |
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USAFpilot | 26 Sep 2016 11:10 a.m. PST |
War is much more than tactical combat engagements. There are other dimensions to it. We won every battle in Vietnam but lost the war. That was due to the political dimensions, but economic dimensions are just as important. Shooting a million dollar missile at a small wooden boat may or may not make sense. Another example comes to mind; battle of Bunker Hill. Which side really won that battle? On first look some would say the British, but on further examination it was a strategic victory for the Americans even though we lost the battle. |
Legion 4 | 26 Sep 2016 1:15 p.m. PST |
Strategic Victory vs. Tactical Victory. History is full of those types of events. But as many here know … I'm a big fan of, as long as islamists are being "removed from the battlefield" … its OK with me … |