Sunday, December 14, 2014

New War, Same as the Old War

And, on cue, the Brits creep back in.
UK Defense Secretary Michael Fallon has announced that hundreds of British troops will be sent to Iraq next month to train local Kurdish and Iraqi forces to fight the Islamic State.

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The small deployment, which Fallon said will be in the small hundreds, is necessary because the war with ISIS has entered a new phase.

  RT
Would that new phase be the one where they have an arsenal gained from capturing oil refineries plus large numbers of US and British equipment?
“The challenge now is that the airstrikes have changed ISIL’s patterns. They are not using large formations out in the open any more. They are increasingly tucked away in towns and villages. That means they have got to be routed out by ground troops,” he said.
That, too.

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