Dan Lamothe and Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Washington Post: Why success against the Islamic State in Ramadi hints at U.S. military strategy to come
As the red, white and black flag of the Iraqi government was raised over the government compound in Ramadi, Iraq, on Monday, leaders of the U.S.-led military coalition against the Islamic State faced a new question: How do they and the Iraqi military recapture that success in other cities, some of which could be even tougher to win?
Ramadi, a city of about 220,000 people, fell to the Islamic State in May 2015, after months of the militants attacking Iraqi security forces, and eventually overwhelming them and prompting survivors to flee. Iraqi military efforts to take back the city began a few months later, but it wasn’t until the last few weeks that it seemed like possession of the city, the capital of Anbar province, was poised to change.
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The "U.S.-led military coalition against the Islamic State" had little or no influence on the taking of Ramadi, so it doesn't matter what the U.S. strategy was or is.
ReplyDeleteBut the State-slavish Washington Post has to peddle the US line that the US was a key player.