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Originally Posted by YM Cating

And yet they are. They anticipated airstrikes and adapted accordingly. We're barely scratching them. They feint one way, and strike targets in another. They've had terror cells in multiple countries start pledging their allegiance. They fluidly move from insurgent warfare, to maneuver, back to insurgent. They have a propaganda campaign so effective this Al Baghdadi could be the new Hitler. And here we sit, in shock, waiting to see what they do next.

We have allowed the enemy to dictate our actions, our tempo. It is us who have underestimated them. If they were to try to apply the same tactics here they would surely fail, we are far too well armed and organized. But if they were to get in with the gangs, use the prison system to convert violent gang members to Islam, and then use that to take gangs and essentially turn them into terror cells...Well then we would have a very serious problem.

Insurgency is the biggest threat. The infrastructure (gangs) is in place. Given their success with social media and this guy Nolen, who was in the prison system, converted to Islam, and bought into their pitch. I'd say that served as an excellent test case. Now all they have to do is intentionally do it.

I think we need a serious show of force. We should start by finding this Ranger and getting him out, and wasting every IS mofo in the AO.

Playtime is over, let's go kick some ass.

And your MOS and the unit you are assigned to is ?? What ultimately happens to ISIS is not up to us. There is no WE here that I can see this is all in the hands of? Yes that's right the POTUS and he is no Harry Truman.