Citing ongoing US efforts to escalate their attacks on ISIS, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter says the US is reviewing its rules of engagement in the war and expanding their list of legitimate targets to allow for more strikes against ISIS-related targets.
Carter cited a recent flurry of US airstrikes against fuel trucks in ISIS territory as an example of “changing tactics” in the war. Officials are hoping that the attacks on fuel trucks will put further pressure on the economy of the ISIS “caliphate,” part of an effort to cripple the region’s fuel exports.
While this has had some success, it is also seen as a very risky tactic, as damaging the economy in ISIS-occupied territory risks making the average civilian within even more dependent on the cash-rich ISIS movement, and more vulnerable to recruitment.
The US has been escalating airstrikes intermittently since beginning their strikes against ISIS targets last year, and is constantly looking for new targets. Though there has been a flurry of activity since last week’s Paris attacks, they have mostly hit empty buildings.
The U.S. waited over a year to take out the main source of ISIS income?
Notice no evidence-videos
The intention on both sides is to keep this war, the authoritarian repression of ordinary people it allows, the parasitic profits for arms dealers/security state auxiliaries, and the fear and hate it generates going for ever…
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You see Yvgeny, the bottom feeders in American society are actually more plentiful in the upper reaches of our culture– and like hungry halibuts they can never get enough, . . . no matter how many people here or abroad are hurt.
i said when Aston Carter became SecDef that this will be WWIII. So predictable. You let the wolves in the hen house and then you wonder who ate all the hens.
The say they're going after ISIS, but I bet they're still really going after Assad. They're scared silly that the Russians got into this, messing up their plans. That is why they're ramping up; not because of ISIS.
Now we know that Russia has been inflicting slaughter upon the Islamic State as over a week ago a video was released showing Russian fighter-bombers incinerating what looked like over 100 semi tankers. But, Empire USA doing harm to it's most valuable creation, the Islamic State which is Syria's greatest enemy, where are the videos? Where is the proof?
Well, if all else fails there's the ROE of "kill anything that moves." After all, it worked like a charm in Vietnam — right, Ash?
When can we expect the world's most expensive military could get off its bum and actually accomplished something? I don't understand why American taxpayers aren't livid when there is an endless parade of politicians, media hacks and too-many-star generals that keep promising a "long war".
I can't figure out the logic behind pointlessly threatening Russia (a real military power) and not being able to deal with a bunch of guys with small arms and pick up trucks.