Putin defies West as Russia bombs Syrian rebel targets. .

Well....if I were Putin I would have done the same thing. Secure the leaders position and then start the mop-up operation... also payback can be a bitch.... with all our western bombs missing ISIS's forces and Ooops hitting Syrian supply lines and troops.. Reading the posted letter again from the A-10 pilot explains allot IMO.


Post by 727sky on Sep 8, 2015 at 4:52am
The squadron is doing fine. Everybody is happy to be here and we are doing some good work. The A-10s are holding up well and the technology we have on the jets now (targeting pods, GPS guided bombs, Laser Guided bombs, Laser guided missiles, tactical data link, satellite comms), and of course the gun, make the A-10 ideal for this conflict. We are killing off as many ISIS as we can, mostly in ones and twos, working with the hand we are dealt. I've never been more convicted in my career that we facing an enemy that needs to be eradicated.



With that being said...I've never been more frustrated in my career. After 13 years of the mind-numbing low intensity conflict in Afghanistan, I've never seen the knife more dull. All the hard lessons learned in Vietnam, and fixed during the first Gulf War, have been unlearned again. The level of centralized execution, bureaucracy, and politics is staggering. I basically do not have any decision making authority in my cockpit. It sucks. In most cases, unless a general officer can look at a video picture from a UAV, over a satellite link, I cannot get authority to engage. I've spent many hours, staring through a targeting pod screen in my own cockpit, watching ISIS shitheads perpetrate their acts until my eyes bleed, without being able to do anything about it. The institutional fear of making a mistake, that has crept into the central mindset of the military leadership, is endemic. We have not taken the fight to these guys. We haven't targeted their centers of gravity in Raqqa. All the roads between Syria and Iraq are still intact with trucks flowing freely. The other night I watched a couple hundred small tanker trucks lined up at an oilfield in ISIS-held northeast Syria, presumably filling up with oil traded on the black market, go unfettered. It's not uncommon to wait several hours overhead a suspected target for someone to make a decision to engage or not. It feels like we are simply using the constructs build up in Afghanistan, which was a very limited fight, in the same way here against ISIS, which is a much more sophisticated and numerically greater foe. It's embarrassing.



Be assured that the Hawg drivers are doing their best under the circumstances, with the crappy hand we have been dealt..

Read more: hernandoshideaway.net/thread/4211/letter-10-pilot-fighting-isis?page=1#ixzz3nGj07lkY

Jebus! I saw this coming from a mile away, and my own Gooberment did not!?

Sad times I tell ya. Everyone had best be prepared for the next Third World War.

www.foxnews.com/world/2015/09/30/boots-on-ground-russian-lawmakers-back-putin-sending-troops-to-syria/?intcmp=hpbt1


You have to wonder sometimes about the old saying we have all heard that goes something like, " I would rather be dead than"...could the 'than' be the loss of face, money, or power ?



news.yahoo.com/iraq-steps-anti-coordination-iran-syria-russia-101434698.html;_ylt=A0LEV1W2uAtWHbUACEdXNyoA;_ylu=X3o'___'ByMjB0aG5zBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--


I bet there are some Hilary hold overs in the state department and other think tanks that are asking themselves what went wrong ? Dumb asses !

I really don't understand any of this. Our men went into Afghanistan basically with their hands tied behind their back, the ME is far worse off than before all of this began in Kuwait, Russia says get out of our way so we can ACCOMPLISH something,and we what? Say no-sir, we're not moving? Are we going to risk world war III over a country that is, always has been and always will be warring among themselves?

Ask any soldier who has been there; these people are not going to change. They don't want to change. It was a waste of money and precious lives for the US to invade the ME.

That's generous. I'd call it a gorram lie. Especially this part:



That was my idea to begin with - but it ain't what Obama DID. Those troops were NOT being trained to "fight ISIS" - they were being trained to fight Assad. That's a whole 'nuther thing... it HELPS ISIS.

This dustup started out as a civil war. A purely internal affair, not an international one. Then 'Murica the Free decided to get in on it, interfere in the internal politics of another, sovereign nation, which gave ISIS a leg-up. Obama has no damned business bitching about Putin wanting to get some of his own now.

Great. yet another 70's and 80's style Proxy war... except Russia ain't using proxies this time.

Great. Just great.

If is russian girl they keep their kgb / fsb id ....... oops erm...... in *censored* place ....... gotta search thorough to find ........

Gotta go find some russia girls ....... brush up on searching for i.d skills on .....

What ? Gotta keep skills honed ....... besides how else gonna know whether or not those cute russia girls not spies if not strip search em ....... erm ..... mean closely observe em .......