{"id":59916,"date":"2015-05-20T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59916"},"modified":"2015-05-20T07:12:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T11:12:01","slug":"isis-gets-resupplied-by-fall-of-ramadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59916","title":{"rendered":"ISIS gets resupplied by fall of Ramadi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ramadi was a windfall for ISIS forces when Iraqi forces abandoned their equipment to flee the advancing thugs. According to the Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n

A Pentagon spokesman, Col. Steve Warren, estimated that a half dozen tanks were abandoned, a similar number of artillery pieces, a larger number of armored personnel carriers and about 100 wheeled vehicles like Humvees. He said some of the vehicles were in working condition; others were not because they had not been moved for months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, the looted British cannons from Fort Ticonderoga that appeared on the heights of Bunker and Breed Hills didn’t turn the tide of that battle, but the casualties that the British suffered as a result limited their operations around Boston after that and resulted in their evacuation from Boston eventually. But that’s just history. It can’t happen again.<\/p>\n

Anyway, we haven’t got rid of that Dempsey guy yet, so we still get treated to his wisdom;<\/p>\n

Gen. Martin Dempsey, the top U.S. military officer, issued a written statement Monday that suggested Ramadi will trigger no change in the U.S. approach.<\/p>\n

“Setbacks are regrettable but not uncommon in warfare,” Dempsey said. “Much effort will now be required to reclaim the city.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They knew that Ramadi has been on the verge of toppling for a month<\/a>, it seems to me that knowledge would have triggered some sort of reaction in the form of increased application of air power, or something. I know the Delta raid was supposed to be a distraction from the fall of Ramadi, I just know it. But this “setbacks are…not uncommon in warfare” attitude is just stupid, especially when they had time to prevent the setback.<\/p>\n

Like I said earlier today, a defensive battle is easier than an offensive battle – if the Iraqis couldn’t hold the city, they’re sure going to have a hard time taking it back.<\/p>\n

They should just give Dempsey administrative leave until his retirement date. It’s obvious that he has his mind on that seven-figure job that he’s taking, because his head hasn’t been in the war for the last four years or so.<\/p>\n

Our buddy, Kristina Wong at The Hill<\/a> says that yesterday, the Pentagon finally called Ramadi a failure;<\/p>\n

“It was a failure of a lot of things, leadership being one of them, tactics being one of them,” said Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren. <\/p>\n

He added, however, “it’s important to note that war is a fluid thing, there’s victories, but the enemy does get a vote and in this case, the enemy was able to gain the upper hand,” he said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s also a failure of a Pentagon that fights from the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ramadi was a windfall for ISIS forces when Iraqi forces abandoned their equipment to flee the … ISIS gets resupplied by fall of Ramadi<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}