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The good news for us is that our combat mission in Iraq has officially ended. Although our government says that all of our combat forces have left the country there is no doubt that we have some contingency troops there as a fighting reserve if necessary, but for the most part our combat mission in that country has ended.

This is the end of an era for our Operation Iraqi Freedom ring customers and the beginning of an era for the people of Iraq. Al-Qaeda has really ramped up their violent attacks in that country because if they want to topple the government now is the best time. The US departure is bittersweet for the Iraqis because they didn’t want us in their country for the most part and I don’t blame them, but they will have to fiend for themselves now that we are gone and it is a fearful proposition for them.

I believe that they can make it but it definitely not be easy. They are in unfamiliar territory and al-Qaeda will definitely use every trick in their power to trip them up. They will have to learn quickly if they are to survive this super critical stage in their history.

The cost of this campaign to the Iraqi people, the US economy, and our military ring customers has been phenomenal. I don’t know if the cost has been worth the effort but the good thing is that it is over.

The Department of Defense has released their report on China’s military modernization. The report states the obvious and I’m sure that the version that we get to see is the sanitized version. It doesn’t really tell much that we don’t already know but it does put some things in perspective.

This is a summary of the report, but let me emphasize it’s in my own words and you all know that the military ring man doesn’t talk much at all like ordinary people. The bottom line is that China’s aim is naval domination and much of its buildup is done with the purpose of intimidating Taiwan and the other countries in the region.

Many of it’s new naval weapons are designed to keep our aircraft carrier ring customers and their carriers at bay. They know that they can’t match the carrier fleet of the US in a force on force engagement so they have concentrated on precision weapons which can take out our carriers at long range. They could effectively inhibit our carrier movement with their long range missiles thus hindering the amount of help that we would be able to provide in the region.

They know that they can’t revamp every piece of equipment in their arsenal so they are revamping the weapons systems which have proven to be dependable in the past. The new technology that they are acquiring is designed to exploit the weaknesses of the proven technology that we have on hand.

Now grasshopper think about what I have just written. The Chinese are countering US technology so in my mind they consider us to be their adversary. Is that the way it looks to you too?

a The latest situation in Iraq is that a suicide bomber has successfully attacked a military headquarters which was being used as a gathering place for Iraqi men to sign up as recruits for its security forces. The bomber posed as a potential recruit and detonated his bomb in the early morning hours. He managed to kill sixty people and injured one hundred and twenty five.

The Iraqi’s are at the point of the proverbial bird who gets kicked out of it’s nest. They will have to fly or die. They are apprehensive because most of our military ring customers who were stationed there are just about to leave.

Personally I believe that the Iraqis are capable of taking care of themselves but they need to realize that the baby bottle has been taken away and act accordingly. They will have to make some big moves real soon and their growth is going to have to skyrocket but I believe that they have what it takes to win. They just need to realize it and act accordingly.

Al-Qaeda has been blamed for the bombing and has conducted an all our attack since our custom military ring customers have began to pull out in earnest. They want to topple the new Iraqi government but my prediction is that it won’t happen. The government is entrenched better than they and al-Qaeda are aware of. So go ahead and fly little birdie fly

I believe in the back of my military mind that we are at a critical point in the war in Afghanistan. As a matter of fact we are at the most critical place possible. I am a tactician of sorts and I believe that I am right. There has been heavy fighting in the Kandahar Province as we continue to fight the insurgents in that part of Afghanistan. They don’t want to give up that part of the country to our control and we are obligated to the Afghan people to take it and get it under Afghan control. The outcome of this battle is crucial.

The latest news from the region is that Afghan forces have conducted a raid which resulted in the deaths of at least twenty of the Haqqani Taliban members. The Afghans conducted the assault in an area in which the Taliban forces were well entrenched in fortified positions. Both sides are deadly serious and the consequences are deadly also.

The good thing about this raid is that it was conducted by the Afghan Army with US forces backing them up. This indicates to me that the Afghan forces are improving in their ability to take control of their country and hopefully to remain in control once our military ring customers leave. Our military ring customers in all branches of service are no doubt the best trained in the world and if anyone can help the Afghans to become proficient enough to secure their country our troops can.

The bad news in this case is good news to me. What the press is publicizing as bad couldn’t be better but you have to have a military mind to understand it. So grasshopper sit back and listen and allow the military ring man drop some knowledge on you.

The news is that heavy fighting is taking place in the vicinity of Kandahar Province in Afghanistan. When the plan for the summer offensive was made it made the assumption that the Taliban would choose to not engage our forces directly but the exact opposite has happened. Kandahar is the birth place for the Taliban so who ever owns it will get a major propaganda victory. We did not know that keeping this area would be so important to the Taliban. They are throwing everything but the kitchen sink into the battle so it will take us a while longer to take control of the area.

All of our custom military ring customers are aware that plans are made to be changed and that very few things go according to plan during combat. In order to win you must be flexible, innovative, and able to adapt and change quickly. You also need to recognize opportunities when they arise and take advantage of them. This is a grand opportunity to eliminate a large number of the enemy without having to chase them all over the country. It actually makes our job infinitely easier.

It just isn’t possible for them to win in this kind of combat. Yes it will take more time to gain control of Kandahar, but once we do we will take control of the other areas very quickly. The prediction of the military ring man is this; Once we take Kandahar the Taliban will quickly lose control of the other areas that they control. Kandahar will be the first domino in the chain to fall. Once we take Kandahar we will have taken out most of their assets. If you are an opportunist you will see that they are playing right into our hands.

If there were a motto to this post it would be darned if you do. The reason that I make this statement is because Tariq Aziz who many of you might remember from the days of the first offensive of Operation Iraqi Freedom is critical about the US withdrawal. Now I’m a bit confused here because I thought the Iraqi people wanted us out of their country. This just goes to show that no matter what you do someone won’t be pleased.

Mr Aziz thinks that we are leaving Iraq to the dogs. In his opinion we have torn the country down and left it in a demolished state. He went on to say that Saddam Insane spent many years building the country before we came in and destroyed his work.

He goes on to say that the Iraqi people are the victims of the US and the British and that President Obama is a hypocrite because he isn’t leaving the troops longer. Well I don’t think that he would have been able to say those things to Saddam and live if Saddam were still the President of Iraq.

You know my military ring customers some people would complain even if we had passed out one hundred dollar bills so what can you do?

I like to think of myself as a man of the truth so I have to call it like I see it and this is an unfortunate incident. There were a large number of Afghan civilians reportedly killed in a nighttime raid in Nangarhar Province in Afghanistan. Now I want to ask the question; Why were so many civilians located in a known Taliban compound? The Taliban routinely uses innocent civilians whom it forces to act as human shields. Now I am not saying that this is in fact what happened because I wasn’t there. I want to believe that this is the case.

US and Afghan forces had targeted a Taliban compound in the action and killed about twenty insurgents, two of which were known Taliban commanders. Civilians should not have been there.

The assault force came under fire as they withdrew which also indicates that the raid took place in a Taliban stronghold. There have also been civilian deaths in areas where NATO and US forces say that they have not conducted operations so something is fishy here.

Now there probably are more precautions that our military ring customers need to take, but when I post about these types of incidents I speak from experience. I know the precautions that our military ring customers have to take in order to not harm innocents because I once trained to perform wartime missions.

Now don’t get all excited about this news because it is no big deal. It does not mean that the US is going to attack Iran. We have probably had an attack plan for quite a while. We must always plan for every contingency. It’s not a big deal. As a matter of fact I can guarantee you that whatever the plan is it has been revised many times over. The purpose of having a plan is to not be caught short when the time for action comes. Once again this does not mean that we will attack Iran.

Any preemptive attack on Iran would have to be very carefully thought out and precisely executed. I will guarantee you that if such a strike were to become necessary the military ring units which would be involved have rehearsed the plan many times already. There would be absolutely no room for error.

Another reason that we would be slow to attack Iran is that we don’t know what the aftermath of the action would be. The region is highly unstable and such an attack could very well plunge us into a world war. There is also the question of: What if we miss? If we attacked we would have to be sure to make sure that we took out every possible weapon that they have. If such an attack were to be conducted it would have to be done by the United States. If the Israelis were to do so it would certainly plunge the region into total chaos. Our Air Force ring customers, and our Special Operations ring customers would have to be the troops used to execute the mission.

Although you really don’t hear a lot about ongoing US and NATO operations in Afghanistan there has obviously been some pretty heavy fighting in the Northeast part of the country along the border with Pakistan. I don’t know but I believe that this is a planned part of the troop surge. The problem is that the terrorists conduct their business in Afghanistan and fade back and forth across the border with Pakistan as often as they need to do.

Our military ring customers could do a whole lot better if we could get some more help from the Pakistanis. I personally think that this is the biggest hindrance to our progress in the war.

The US and Afghan forces say that they are searching for Qai Zir Rahman who is the leader of the Taliban in the area. I don’t believe that they will find him but this is a good way to conduct an offensive operation without calling it an offensive. We know that we can’t kill off the Taliban or al-Qaeda for that matter but we need to let them know that we can hit them and hurt them whenever we want to. If we can put enough pressure on them hopefully we can make them realize that it would be much easier to just cooperate with us.

President Obama has wisely scaled back objectives in the ongoing military operation in Afghanistan. If you have been following this blog you will remember that I have done many posts on the subject and suggested that we do the same. At this point in the operation this is the wise thing to do. We didn’t seem to have a realistic goal before this. I have said time and time again that our goal should not be to kill off al-Qaeda, or the Taliban because that just isn’t possible. We should work on degrading their operation as much as we can and seek to protect our national borders rather than seek them out and destroy them. We should continue to use our special ops ring customers to perform snatches and assasinations as necessary. We should continue to develop our intelligence to the utmost degree, and we should continue to smash their traning camps at every opportunity.

If we want to be honest thats just about all that we can do. Let’s be real about this.
The President basically agreed with my assesment and stated our war aims as: Not allowing terrorists to operate freely from the region, not allowing them to create large training camps, and not allowing them to plan attacks with impunity. If we are to be realistic that is just about what we are doing right now. If we left the country right now we could say that we have met our objectives.