Malcolm Nance: WARNING: Ketaib Hezbollah's warning for Iraqis to stay 1km from US bases...

[demmiblue]

WARNING: Ketaib Hezbollah’s warning for Iraqis to stay 1km from US bases means unguided rockets are likely to be used to attack US bases/Embassy w/massed bombardments. Some rkts can fly 20-50km and hit within a km. This is not an idle threat. They can make #Baghdad like #KheSahn

BREAKING: Commander in Katai'b Hezbollah warns Iraqi security forces to stay at least 1000m away from US military bases in Iraq starting Sunday evening. https://twitter.com/Aletejah_TV/st

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[mr_lebowski]

1. I seriously doubt Iran would do anything that brash (nt)

[nini]

6. Why not?

Now is the perfect time being we have no allies left, and Russia and China are doing military exercises with Iran.

[MarcA]

8. Would like to have access to a mobile chart

showing the arrangements and alliances of all the actors and groups in the
Middle East so one could keep up to date on the latest alignments.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. wow, that's scary. Someone made a good point on CNN. IF you knew there

was an imminent attack - NO WAY would you take out the leader. You would take out the attack team and the weapons and materials they would use to attack. You would disable the attack.

He is such a fucking liar. Yet, look at MSNBC daily tracking and he's getting more popular NOT LESS popular. Whatever any of us or the favorable press or our candidates are doing (all of us) is NOT working.

[dware]

4. No, that's wrong,

you take out the commander, thereby disrupting the attack and future attacks.

I spent a lifetime in the Marines, we were taught to take out the commander and the comms first if possible, it creates chaos and confusion among the ranks.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. Well, that sounds right to me too. Perhaps there is a difference

between middle eastern war mentality than in US? I don't know. Do you believe, like they are saying, that trump has created a hero to the Iranian forces?

[dware]

7. There's absolutely no doubt in my mind that he created

a hero and martyr to the Iranian people.

This could have been done covertly, giving the US plausible deniability, at the same time, sending the Iranian leadership a powerful message, but my take is that the Mango Menace wanted to distract attention from his domestic problems, so he did it in a very public way, putting our people in greater danger.

It was pure stupidity, but we've come to expect that from him.

[MineralMan]

9. That works best with a well-organized and disciplined enemy.

It works less well with a militia-style rag-tag enemy. In that case, the "commander" doesn't really play a day-to-day role in running things. In that case the "commander" is a leader who inspires, but does not exercise tactical control.

With that kind of organization, taking out the leader is more inspirational for the fighters than detrimental. Insurgencies, militias, resistance groups, guerrillas, and other such less organized forces don't operate like our military. Their smaller units are more self-directed than led by a hierarchy.

The old "cut off the head of the serpent" idea doesn't work so well in those circumstances.

You'd think we would have learned that in the past 50 to 60 or so years, wouldn't you? Apparently, we haven't.

[dware]

12. In today's type of warfare, you are correct,

I'm just going by what I was taught during my time in the Marines.

[Talitha]

10. Thank you for your service!!!

[dware]

11. Thank you very much.

[roamer65]

3. War is coming.

This coming week it will escalate unless a miracle worker stops it.

Asymmetric warfare by Iranian backed militias.