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SSNeoman posted:I have no knowledge of tactics or military but judging from the comments and where YPG is hitting them would it be fair to say that they're gonna dig in for a battle of attrition? ISIS can't really fight a "battle of attrition," at least in the conventual sense ISIS basically relies on gaps in enemy defenses. They have never won a pitched offensive battle. The reason that they are so slow to advance against is; 1) they don't form static lines of defense, or rather, when they do they simply fall back to the major cities and leave snipers and mines behind to hinder advances. A guy can hide in the basement for 3 weeks and cause massive damage to the rear. 2) the SAA and especially the YPG don't have the manpower to ignore these pockets, every hamlet and farm is turned into a booby trap or snipers nest that all need to be cleared before advances can happen. ISIS can hold back a larger force with a fraction of the troops. 3) SVIEDs and IEDs when you have one road to go down a single vehicle or roadside bomb can halt an advance for hours.
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rear end struggle posted:ISIS can't really fight a "battle of attrition," at least in the conventual sense ISIS basically relies on gaps in enemy defenses. They have never won a pitched offensive battle. They took the SAA to school when they went for Al Tabqa.
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Bates posted:They took the SAA to school when they went for Al Tabqa. But again, there the SAA was surrounded after the majority of troops retreated rather than fighting. It was less of a pitched battle and more of a disorganized withdrawal that ended in a massacre.
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rear end struggle posted:But again, there the SAA was surrounded after the majority of troops retreated rather than fighting. It was less of a pitched battle and more of a disorganized withdrawal that ended in a massacre. There was some fairly heavy fighting when they were steamrolling through Rojava and Sinjar simultaneously before US airstrikes started.
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I wonder what either side would think if Russia gets bored helping them and the other is plowed under by their enemies? Also,  at Russian puppets sending each other presents.
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If you hear very loud screaming coming from the direction of Ankara soon, here's why: https://twitter.com/BarzanSadiq/status/834507532592902145 quote:#US Central command commander Joseph Votel to visit #Kobani, will ensure #US support to #SDF in their assault on #Raqqah. Related, John McCain did a similar visit: http://ktar.com/story/1468304/john-mccain-made-secret-syria-trip-meet-american-kurdish-officials/ https://www.wsj.com/articles/mccain-makes-secret-trip-to-syria-in-midst-of-u-s-assessment-1487795458 quote:Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) secretly traveled to northern Syria last weekend to speak with American military officials and Kurdish fighters at the forefront of the push to drive Islamic State out of their de facto capital of Raqqa, according to U.S. officials. The unusual visit, which officials said was organized with the help of the U.S. military, came as the Trump administration is debating plans for an accelerated military campaign against Islamic State, also known by the acronyms ISIS and ISIL. Not only does publicly known meeting not destroy McCain's career like it would have 40 years ago, you can even contact McCain's office to get official confirmation that yeah he totally met with the SDF.
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Well if any of you were looking for a chance to fight for the mighty lion Assad, from the comfort of your own home, now you have the chance. The very tasteful Syrian Warfare has just been released.
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↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A should work fine as the Kobani code, right?
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Mozi posted:↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A should work fine as the Kobani code, right? Metal Gear Solid VI confirmed. "Set in the country of middle-east, David Snake, a clone of the legendary Big Boss is set to uncover a plot in the war torn country involving a new ittiration of the legendary weapon, Metal Gear. With the help of a mysterious Kurdish sniper codenamed 'Silence' and a rag tag team of international espionage specialists, he'll have to infiltrate the fortress of Al-Behesht to stop a global nuclear war."
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Ikasuhito posted:Well if any of you were looking for a chance to fight for the mighty lion Assad, from the comfort of your own home, now you have the chance. The very tasteful Syrian Warfare has just been released. I really don't get why making a game about this conflict is any worse than making a game about any other conflict. It's not like gaming has shied away from exploring other recent conflicts like the war on terror.in general, or even Iraq specifically. It seems like there's at least some desire to humanize the conflict, so it doesn't seem any more exploitative than anything else in the genre to me.
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This is one area where Trump being an unhinged crazy person could be good, especially with Flynn gone. Pull a Taiwan and get him on the phone with Ocalan pledging arms to the PKK, and pull a Yemen raid and say that Obama would have never had the guts to do this.
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Ikasuhito posted:Well if any of you were looking for a chance to fight for the mighty lion Assad, from the comfort of your own home, now you have the chance. The very tasteful Syrian Warfare has just been released. Holy poo poo. http://steamcommunity.com/stats/485980/achievements look at the achievments. "stop the ambulance provocation" "Do not allow the false flag operation with the bus to happen."
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rear end struggle posted:Holy poo poo. http://steamcommunity.com/stats/485980/achievements hahahahahahaha
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rear end struggle posted:Holy poo poo. http://steamcommunity.com/stats/485980/achievements Okay yeah gently caress that game. I think a game about the Syrian civil war could be fine, but this one doesn't appear to be.
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Throatwarbler posted:Kataib Hezbollah attack on Tel Afaar. Also 'Stop the ambulance provocation', gently caress those guys. What's the deal with the bus, though? Ol' Assad murder some schoolboys?
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WarpedNaba posted:I'm afraid my Arabic isn't so grand, who are they killing? guessing it's a timed objective where israel/isis/cnn blows up a bus and blames you
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This does not reflect well on the TAF/FSA: Three months of fighting:  Also, these images of SDF forces from different fronts meeting up are starting to become commonplace: https://twitter.com/AfarinMamosta/status/834450463244349442
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Ikasuhito posted:Well if any of you were looking for a chance to fight for the mighty lion Assad, from the comfort of your own home, now you have the chance. The very tasteful Syrian Warfare has just been released. So I wonder if they'll make a prequel to this game where you can order the soldiers to fire on protestors that want evil freedom and democracy?
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In the DLC you have to try to defend against NATO jets dropping daisy cutters on hospitals in Aleppo.
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Sinteres posted:Okay yeah gently caress that game. I think a game about the Syrian civil war could be fine, but this one doesn't appear to be. I think I saw on Twitter a modern FPS/TPS being developed about the Syrian civil war where you would play a female Kurdish or Yadizi soldier fighting ISIS.
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Young Freud posted:I think I saw on Twitter a modern FPS/TPS being developed about the Syrian civil war where you would play a female Kurdish or Yadizi soldier fighting ISIS. I would be morbidly curious to see how Activision would work with something like that.
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Or doing the stupid islamophobic meme of "if they kill by a woman- then no heaven!" That got played up in the news a while back.
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So I looked it up and of course the game was made in Russia
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Hey at least one part seems accurate!quote:- AI needs a lot of work with units often ignoring commands, withdrawing for an unknown reason, shooting at targets they can't see etc.
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Surprise quickening everywhere! https://twitter.com/CivilWarMap/status/834732988818653184 Seems like a deal for Daesh retreat was reached, a wise choice for everyone involved. Now let's see what Turkey does next and how the Assad, SDF, US, respond. Mosul airport already! https://twitter.com/iraqi_day/status/834706430917750784 And the usual SDF thing: https://twitter.com/CivilWarMap/status/834728251453014017
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ecureuilmatrix posted:Seems like a deal for Daesh retreat was reached, a wise choice for everyone involved. Now let's see what Turkey does next and how the Assad, SDF, US, respond. I guess they fell back to Raqqa. As for Turkey's next move, obviously, attack the SDF while they're busy with Raqqa.
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Cat Mattress posted:I guess they fell back to Raqqa. As for Turkey's next move, obviously, attack the SDF while they're busy with Raqqa. I wonder if the SAA would stay out of that fight. They can work out a deal for Kurdish autonomy or just stomp the YPG after the war's over a lot easier than they can push the Ottomans back across their border in areas they occupy, so they have good reason to limit Turkish advances. Russia's been pretty pro-YPG too, and while I wouldn't expect them to start bombing Turkish forces outright, we might see a few more "accidents" like the one that happened near Al-Bab a week or two ago if the FSA and SAA start clashing in the north.
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Some kind of NATO terrorist propaganda film on then way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MwvaA0VYqE https://twitter.com/RealityofSyria/status/834838241224355840 Throatwarbler fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Feb 23, 2017 |
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I've seen a couple of adverts online aimed at UK Muslim youth to deter further shifts to ISIS. Funny enough it played before a Quran Reloaded video, the least likely type of thing they'd be looking for on YouTube, but I do suppose they're using some search algorithm for finding any relevant online videos with tags like 'quran' or 'islam'.
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Throatwarbler posted:IS drone drops bomb on vehicle carrying ammo. pro-click
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Sommerville is the fellow to follow. https://twitter.com/sommervillebbc/status/835015501818507264 https://twitter.com/sommervillebbc/status/835023113448484866 Breaking through: https://twitter.com/sommervillebbc/status/835108981819473920 https://twitter.com/sommervillebbc/status/835108982272507904  I think the loader is there to carry the driver's balls.Good dog! https://twitter.com/sommervillebbc/status/835132566126661633
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