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2015-03-16 Iraq

Iraqi forces poised for final Tikrit assault

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Posted by Fred 2015-03-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
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#1 Both the Kurds + Iraqi Army are repor claiming more US Airstrikes are needed to finally take Tikrit from the ISIS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-03-16 00:46|| 2015-03-16 00:46|| Front Page Top

#2 If they could get some of those M-1s back from ISIS, they could just roll into town and blast them out of their rat holes.

Just finished Stephen Ambrose's "Citizen Soldiers" and the latter chapters are almost a textbook on how to conduct urban warfare. It is pretty messy on the townscape but it does root them out and keep casualties down...it involves tanks and a willingness to blow up a building instead of assaulting it.

Perchance the destruction of property that AI is sniveling about is just good doctrinal urban warfare behavior.

Posted by Mystic 2015-03-16 02:03|| 2015-03-16 02:03|| Front Page Top

#3 The Red Army gobbled Berlin, a city five or six times larger than Stalingrad in just two weeks.

Posted by JFM 2015-03-16 09:12|| 2015-03-16 09:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Doesn't the Iraqi army have artillery? Just turn the center of the city into rubble.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2015-03-16 09:20|| 2015-03-16 09:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Saddam must be spinning in his grave.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-03-16 14:33|| 2015-03-16 14:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Actually, IS recently blew up his mausoleum. The Sunnis moved the body before that, tho.

Posted by Pappy 2015-03-16 17:29|| 2015-03-16 17:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Saddam's mausoleum is now up in the air.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-03-16 17:32|| 2015-03-16 17:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Just put the artillery hub to hub, and walk it across slowly, so that even the rubble gets pulverized, leaving no hiding places (unlike Stalingrad).

Posted by OldSpook 2015-03-16 20:07|| 2015-03-16 20:07|| Front Page Top

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