What if you put all 120,000 US troops + coalition forces to seal Iraqi border instead of slugging it out in the streets of Baghdad and other combat zones?
Granting it's almost impossible to put ground forces on all points in & out of Iraq (particularly those it share w/ Iran, Syria), my impression is that, with US superiority in electronic warfare capabilities (satellites, drones, remote sensors), it doesn't even have to put ground forces everywhere.
Not enough equipments? What it lack in equipments...they can build.
What about the Billion-$ price tag to maintain it? I'm sure money is no object if to consider the moral and political value of each soldier killed. Besides, it is already an expensive war.
This way, US and Coalition forces can hand over the combat duties to Iraqi forces where it should be. With no weapons and supplies coming in for the militias, even a weak Iraqi security force can now handle the job.
It may be easier said than done...but it sure can be done.
2006-12-28 22:39:22 · 7 answers · asked by Mr. Kite 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
This is actually being done by British forces around Basra, and Australian forces in the south, they carry out interdiction and interception missions with quite some success!..The American forces, because of the rigidity of their command and engagement structure appear to incapable of doing this! By the time an American field officer has received approval to engage, the enemy has invariably bolted and the opportunity lost, usually with unnecessary US casualty's!..You have to intercept and destroy the insurgents before they do the deed, not sit back and wait for it to happen!..What has to happen is someone in US politics has to have the 'balls' to get the bungling bumbling political general officers out of it, and replace them with officers with field experience who know how to fight a war like this!..They have to follow what the Brits and the Aussies are doing, or they cant win!
2006-12-29 02:14:49 · answer #1 · answered by paranthropus2001 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are several "hot" borders... the guys on the ground are pretty busy fighting insurgency. Its true, a light infantry iraqi unit could control the check points.
We cant even control the border here at home (and we`re not under fire) how can we control the Iran-iraq Border?
2006-12-29 07:25:55 · answer #2 · answered by Matias G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kinda hard to keep weapons out when they are still finding surplus weapons from 1982 when the US was supplying them (Iraq) to fight Iran. Now it is coming back to bite them in the ***. Same as Afghanistan, the weapons supplied for the fight against Russia is now being used on US troops.
2006-12-29 07:01:16 · answer #3 · answered by Cherry_Blossom 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're already doing it.
Just because you don't see it on the news,don't think it's not happening.
Thats a lot of territory to cover but they stop smugglers everyday.
2006-12-29 09:58:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nice thought bad Idea.
2006-12-29 06:50:43 · answer #5 · answered by daddyspanksalot 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well thats close to what theyre doing.
2006-12-29 06:47:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree!!!!!!!!! Why not seal the borders here as well.
2006-12-29 06:47:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋