Thursday, June 4, 2015

Why Is It Hard To Defeat The Islamic State? (Video)



WNU Editor: A sobering video summary and assessment on the war against the Islamic State.
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phill said...

What would Putin do?

June 4, 2015 at 12:25 PM
B.Poster said...

"What would Putin do?" I suspect he would probably use intelligence agents to infiltrate ISIS giving him access to everything they are doing meaning he and his forces would know everything about the enemy including what they are doing, when they are doing it, and where thy are doing it making the attacks much more likely to be thwarted. From this, he and his forces would take down ISIS from within which would "destroy and degrade" the enemy.

Additionally I'd expect a media blitz against ISIS through various media including social media that would overwhelm ISIS in these areas. After all the Russians are probably the best in the world at messaging. In contrast, the United States is among the worst at messaging in the world. This would likely undermine ISIS recruiting. This along with taking the organization down from within by eliminating its organization structure and its fighters and the lack of new recruits would likely lead to the destruction of ISIS. Using this method I suspect Putin and his forces would be able to eliminate ISIS in about six months.

We are not in a position to be able to "tell" Turkey, Qatar, or Saudi Arabia much of anything. Russia likely would be able to should they choose to do so. They could use the same methods they'd likely use to deal with ISIS to deal with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey.

I suspect Russia likes the instability caused by ISIS as it puts a check on falling oil prices and it undermines America. This along with the "sanctions" that are working to galvanize the resolve of the Russian people against America and to strengthen Putin I think Mr. Putin is probably loving life right about now.

There you have a primer on what Putin would likely do. Some of the details may be off but the basic strategy is one likely to be used I think. While I would like to see the US do something like this, frankly the US Intel services and the Intel and military leadership lack the competence to be able to pull something like this off. Also, US military forces don't have the proper training to be able to carry out something like this.

As such, the US would need to deploy a significantly different strategy. While I have some ideas on how this might work, the question was "what would Putin do?"

June 4, 2015 at 11:55 PM

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