Gen. Hawk Carlisle, the head of Air Combat Command, praised the F-22 for its role in the fight against the Islamic State group.(Photo: Air Force)
Air Force Times: ACC commander predicts up to seven-year fight in Iraq, Syria
At 6 p.m. on a recent evening on a base in southwest Asia, an Air Force F-22 Raptor took off for a strike mission against the Islamic State group in Syria.
What the aircraft accomplished before it landed 11 1/2 hours later shows why the aircraft is vital to the U.S. fleet, and why it is now tasked with flying in every strike package that goes north into Syria as part of Operation Inherent Resolve, Gen. Hawk Carlisle, the head of Air Combat Command said Monday.
While airborne, the F-22 flew its strike mission, but was also "re-roled" five times during flight, meaning its main objective changed. The F-22 flew surveillance missions tracking fighters on the ground, used its advanced sensors to redirect other aircraft and call for additional strikes, passed along data on its missions and escorted bombers to their targets. While in flight, the F-22 required seven refuelings, Carlisle said.
WNU Editor: In this post he talks about the F-22 and how it is conducting military operations over Iraq and Syria .... but further down in the post he admits the following sobering assessment ....
.... This is all part of a "dynamic and rapidly changing" fight that Carlisle said he expects to last up to seven years.
Seven years!?!?!?!?!
3 comments:
Seven years from now plus one year for each year delayed through ineffective action.
The way things are going three years from now ISIS will be in Europe.
You are right Bob.
Seven years given that the war is being ran on a shoe string budget. We are using 2% of air power.
One of the contributors/writers at SOFREP said something to the effect "If you have not defeated your enemy in 3 years, you are training them." Obviously, the fumb duckers at the White House did not get the memo. If Marx or someone had said something like it, maybe they would have read it and taken it to heart.
Then again the real battles in the U.S. are happening with Acorn or Soros putting troops in the field in Baltimore and Ferguson. They better pay their mercenaries in Ferguson of those incendiaries will be headed for their offices.
So far we have been training ISIS in its' current incarnation for a year.
When we fought the North Vietnamese one way they combatted air superiority was "grabbing the enemy by the belt'. That is get close. Obviously, community organizers do not have to read much in the way of military science or history.
Seven years? In much less than that time at this rate, ISIs will have captured everything they are seeking and there would be nothing else to fight for.
ISIS has so far been able to capture and hold territory at a faster rate and more efficiently than the United States ever could.
Aizino, I like the quote you reference. Perhaps if ISIS has not defeated us within three years they will be training us. After all they've been able to defeat their opponents, get their message out through various media, capture territory, and hold territory more effectively and efficiently than we've ever been able to in the sixty years or so. It would seem we have much to learn from them!! This does NOT necessarily mean we should or could implement everything they do but it does seem clear we have much to learn from them in the way of military tactics and strategy. Hopefully this training thing goes both ways.
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