The Pentagon has been warning at regular intervals that ISIS would adapt to the US airstrikes against them. Today, officials confirmed that’s exactly what’s happening.
According to Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby, ISIS has significantly changed their tactics and posture to make the airstrikes “more difficult,” saying there was no question they had made striking them harder.
Kirby said the US strikes were less about killing individual ISIS members and more about attacking convoys and artillery positions, and that ISIS had dispersed and hidden more such potential targets.
Despite the change in tactics, Kirby conceded that ISIS continues to threaten to advance against Baghdad, saying they “haven’t made any great strides in that regard.” Neither, it seems, has the Pentagon made any great strides in pushing them back with their air war.
ISIS is a military force, guided by either Turkish, Saudis, Jordanian or UAE officers, those that know the area very well and have their agents already stitiond along the border to turkey, which is the reason for ISIS being able to capture so many villages in such short time in that area.
"…and more about attacking convoys and artillery positions…"
…and, not to mention, destroying Syrian infrastructure such as roads, bridges, oil refineries, electrical generation stations…stuff the Syrian people will need during the upcoming winter. Of course, the "occasional accidental" bombing of a hospital or school will happen, quickly blamed upon ISIS hiding in them using them as shields.
Feeling that he should report the fact ISIS is making it more difficult to bomb them may be the reason John Kirby is still just a Rear Admiral.
i agree 100% percent