When President Obama announced his long-contemplated strategy for confronting the Islamic State (ISIS) last month and made it clear that this would necessitate air strikes in Syria, many Syrians rejoiced at the news, believing that any intervention in their ravaged country was better than no intervention at all.
many more "meat-grinders". Urban warfare is probably where they are the most vulnerable. While it's true that their weapons can degrade most buildings in short order, they will also be vulnerable to attack from relatively light ordnance. Their incursions into cities will be costly. While tanks and armour appear fearsome in cities, with out well trained, experienced soldiers to provide cover, they are death traps.
One of the key reasons why Ortona is such a good book, is because it describes how the Canadian 1st Division learned, ( the hard way) the urban fighting skills they later used to decimate the German Defenders in the Rhine and the Lowlands. There are usually only a few buildings that are key to an area's defence, and in Ortona, the Canadians learned to take them by Top Floor Mouseholing to get there with minimal casualties and as the easiest way to neutralize buildings defences, take the key, and after that, it was just a case of mopping up the defenders that couldn't retreat.
Turkish tanks and other ground forces have been stationed along the border within a few hundred yards of the fighting in Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, but have not intervened. And while Turkey said just days ago that it wouldn't kobani let Kobani fall, there's no indication the government is prepared to make a major move to save it. We are besieged by Turkey, it is not something new,” said Ismet Sheikh Hassan, the Kurdish defence chief for the Kobani region.
Clearly, Turkey is more concerned with extinguishing the seeds of Kurdish freedom than taking on ISIS, while the Obama administration builds a clumsy collection of passive and questionable partners kobani,kobane,ypg in this so-called anti-ISIS coalition, while failing to support what have been the most effective opponents - the Kurdish movement in Rojava (Syria) - of the ISIS drive to expand it's territory.
overriding ones in US policy. Though are you talking about the FP establishment or the combined elements of the US left? They're almost completely separate groups. FGM, torture, child abuse, political imprisonment, etc are not given kobani,kobane,ypg much consideration by the former, except (sometimes) in terms of how to manage public opinion. The same would be true of your hypothetical MGM. That the Turks got a SOFA that nobody else in the world, even the Brits, got.
oil. Certainly not enough to be a member of OPEC. And we started providing the aid immediately following the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. Egypt is the second largest recipient of US military and and the 28th largest kobani,kobane,ypg producer of oil. They are much more useful as an ally in the region than as an oil producer. But after the bomb goes off, there's a handy crater left behind to shelter in. And forces all around the crater to keep moving.
SURUÇ, Turkey—He gazes at the photograph of his daughter Evan on his cellphone as he offers to let me look. She is 18 years old with long dark wavy hair. It isn't a snapshot but a more formally posed picture. The girl has lively eyes, a pleasant smile. It was taken shortly before she left a note for her parents telling them she was crossing the border into Syria to join the Kurdish defense militia, the YPG. That was six months ago and last week she contacted him and explained she was fighting the militants of the Islamic State in the besieged town of Kobani.
Kamara was described as being a member of Jabhat al-Nusra, an affiliate group of al-Qaida which has fought against both the forces of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, and Islamic State militants in the country's civil war. Abadi said in part that he has asked Obama for weapons and had emphasized the importance of the respect of the sovereignty of Iraq and the territorial integrity of Iraq”.
21 Kasım 2014 Cuma
A Comprehensive Strategy
When President Obama announced his long-contemplated strategy for confronting the Islamic State (ISIS) last month and made it clear that this would necessitate air strikes in Syria, many Syrians rejoiced at the news, believing that any intervention in their ravaged country was better than no intervention at all.
many more "meat-grinders". Urban warfare is probably where they are the most vulnerable. While it's true that their weapons can degrade most buildings in short order, they will also be vulnerable to attack from relatively light ordnance. Their incursions into cities will be costly. While tanks and armour appear fearsome in cities, with out well trained, experienced soldiers to provide cover, they are death traps.
One of the key reasons why Ortona is such a good book, is because it describes how the Canadian 1st Division learned, ( the hard way) the urban fighting skills they later used to decimate the German Defenders in the Rhine and the Lowlands. There are usually only a few buildings that are key to an area's defence, and in Ortona, the Canadians learned to take them by Top Floor Mouseholing to get there with minimal casualties and as the easiest way to neutralize buildings defences, take the key, and after that, it was just a case of mopping up the defenders that couldn't retreat.
Turkish tanks and other ground forces have been stationed along the border within a few hundred yards of the fighting in Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, but have not intervened. And while Turkey said just days ago that it wouldn't kobani let Kobani fall, there's no indication the government is prepared to make a major move to save it. We are besieged by Turkey, it is not something new,” said Ismet Sheikh Hassan, the Kurdish defence chief for the Kobani region.
Clearly, Turkey is more concerned with extinguishing the seeds of Kurdish freedom than taking on ISIS, while the Obama administration builds a clumsy collection of passive and questionable partners kobani,kobane,ypg in this so-called anti-ISIS coalition, while failing to support what have been the most effective opponents - the Kurdish movement in Rojava (Syria) - of the ISIS drive to expand it's territory.
overriding ones in US policy. Though are you talking about the FP establishment or the combined elements of the US left? They're almost completely separate groups. FGM, torture, child abuse, political imprisonment, etc are not given kobani,kobane,ypg much consideration by the former, except (sometimes) in terms of how to manage public opinion. The same would be true of your hypothetical MGM. That the Turks got a SOFA that nobody else in the world, even the Brits, got.
oil. Certainly not enough to be a member of OPEC. And we started providing the aid immediately following the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. Egypt is the second largest recipient of US military and and the 28th largest kobani,kobane,ypg producer of oil. They are much more useful as an ally in the region than as an oil producer. But after the bomb goes off, there's a handy crater left behind to shelter in. And forces all around the crater to keep moving.
SURUÇ, Turkey—He gazes at the photograph of his daughter Evan on his cellphone as he offers to let me look. She is 18 years old with long dark wavy hair. It isn't a snapshot but a more formally posed picture. The girl has lively eyes, a pleasant smile. It was taken shortly before she left a note for her parents telling them she was crossing the border into Syria to join the Kurdish defense militia, the YPG. That was six months ago and last week she contacted him and explained she was fighting the militants of the Islamic State in the besieged town of Kobani.
Kamara was described as being a member of Jabhat al-Nusra, an affiliate group of al-Qaida which has fought against both the forces of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, and Islamic State militants in the country's civil war. Abadi said in part that he has asked Obama for weapons and had emphasized the importance of the respect of the sovereignty of Iraq and the territorial integrity of Iraq”.
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