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2015-01-24 Terror Networks

Pentagon Says U.S. has Killed Thousands of IS Jihadists

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Posted by trailing wife 2015-01-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
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Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel, however, warned against resorting to "body counts" to measure progress in the war.

He should rightly know. Likely one of the reasons he's leaving his post.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-01-24 06:21|| 2015-01-24 06:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Though with due concern for "minimizing civilian casualties", one presumes?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-01-24 06:24|| 2015-01-24 06:24|| Front Page Top

#3 g(r)om, they may be counting bunnies and kitties to make the number look higher.

When the count for HR purposes those will be ignored.

Posted by AlanC 2015-01-24 08:23|| 2015-01-24 08:23|| Front Page Top

#4 It's bunch of BS. In wars of attrition you need some measure of progress. The one measure least subject to distortion is body counts. Wars of maneuver measure progress via the amount territory taken. In a war of attrition, if you're not stacking up enemy dead, you need to step it up. That's why the military does body counts, even if it doesn't release them to the press.

Posted by Crating Uluting3408 2015-01-24 08:30|| 2015-01-24 08:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Good point Ulu, but I think we must be careful to differentiate between the destruction of combat units and the selective media reporting of 'eaches.'

Posted by Besoeker 2015-01-24 08:36|| 2015-01-24 08:36|| Front Page Top

#6 For IS its war was lost in Iraq once it began to gather its troops en masse.

Posted by Ulique Pelosi8805 2015-01-24 10:06|| 2015-01-24 10:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Don't forget the 'institutional' inter-service game of my boys killed more of the bad guys than your boys and thus I should get more funding. The game of 'mine is bigger than yours' has been going on forever.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-01-24 10:40|| 2015-01-24 10:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Numma 7 obviously referring to what I call 'wars within wars.' A dynamic for which I have absolute and unequivocal loathing. Very accurate catch P2k.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-01-24 11:41|| 2015-01-24 11:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Are we stacking them up faster than they could stack
themselves?

Screw it. Get out and give the jooooos the Pershing Data.

Posted by Shipman 2015-01-24 14:35|| 2015-01-24 14:35|| Front Page Top

#10 Nice to see high body counts are back en vogue.

If these are the numbers el prez is getting, no wonder he thinks highly of the situation.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-01-24 16:25|| 2015-01-24 16:25|| Front Page Top

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