What U.S. Airstrikes Look Like In Iraq, Mapped By Region -- Washington Post
As the United States’ air war in Iraq moves into its second month, there are a lot of ways to crunch the data that has been released. One is to track what has been hit. Another, depicted above, is to pay attention to where the bombs and missiles have been landing.
As this map shows, the U.S. military has dropped ordnance around the Mosul Dam at least 94 times since President Obama first authorized airstrikes in Iraq on Aug. 7. At least 29 more airstrikes have been conducted around Irbil, the northern Iraqi city where the United States maintains a consulate and a joint military operations center that has had a hand in coordinating a U.S. assessing and advising mission. Hundreds of U.S. service members were sent there earlier this year to get a sense for the capabilities and needs of Iraqi and Kurdish military units and how the Pentagon could best help.
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My Comment: Here is an easy prediction .... there is going to be more red spots on this map in the months to come.
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I'd say years and that's being optimistic.
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