Aylee
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Maybe the Nobel Prizewinner who let the Ayatollah come to power could trade war stories with the Nobel Prizewinner who's starting an {as currently fought} unwinnable war in the Middle East.
How would you fight it? To make it winnable, that is.
What do these pukes have in the way of equipment first? Any Air-power? Armor Assets? Considering that they've been smashing Syrian and Iraqi forces, I want to know what they have.
We start with armor, because I don't think they have any air. We begin with light tanks, such as the Stuart. Maybe upgrade the gun from a 37 mm to a 57 mm if possible. Medium armor could be Grants and Shermans, or Patton tanks. Platoon of five light tanks, company of 18 medium tanks.
Artillery SPGs in the 105-155 mm range, two batteries.
Infantry battalion, three line companies, a heavy weapons company, Hqs/Svc company.
Supporting assets. Supply logistics units for each major component/unit, and plenty of transport. Lots of trucks, maybe some APCs. UAV recon units, Engineers, Medical units.
Figure on a minimum of 6,000 people.
Physical requirements? Pass the PFT for your age group, be able to walk five miles with sixty pounds in two hours. Hit the dog target at three hundred meters from the standing position.
Supposedly they now have M1 Abrams that they looted from the Iraqis along with some T-72 tanks from Syria and Iraq. They also have a good bit of artillery. Now whether they know how to use any of it is a different story.
Worst case scenario then would be Armor that can move and shoot, in desperate need of maintenance and bore-siting. Call it 1 hit in twenty rounds, maybe? Artillery is probably mostly towed peices, but may be more dangerous for that, needing less maintennce than an SPG.
The trick would be to hit them at weak points(hence the UAV units), wearing down their numbers while looking for the most advantageous ground for a large conventional battle.
While it would be nice to have some modern MBTs, Stuart light tanks and shermans can kill T 72s and even Abrams tanks. Doubtful that these clowns can handle tank formations larger than a platoon, so a company of Sherman tanks reinforced by a platoon of Stuarts would chop 'em up.
Go after fuel and food depots. Can't run armor and trucks without fuel. Also any other logistic locations, plus key transportation infrastructure. Cut the oil pipelines and if they try to move the gold they have taken, steal it from them.
I said a combat unit of about six thousand people. That did not include an air element. I'm adding a squadron of fixed wing planes for bombing/strafing, some choppers for fire support and transport. Make it 8,000 troops now, and the goal is to kill bad guys, rescue innocents, and train people to fight back against these stains on humanity.
Start sortieing B-2's and B-52's and have them carpet bomb any area that has ISIS leadership in it. If they NSA does not have the SIGINT to tell us where that is, they need to be fired.
Rain 2000# bombs until the command signals are gone, then have drones and fighter bombers run around and let the SPECTRE play at night. Once they have been hammered in this manner, the non-whack job Muslims should be able to deal with them.
I would also use the ROE from WW2 instead of the current ones and employ reprisals.
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