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When you bomb and shell from a distance there can be risks - to others. “Colonel Francois-Regis Legrier, said the coalition's focus had been on limiting its own risks and this had greatly increased the death toll among civilians and the levels of destruction.”
French officer's indictment of Coalition tactics in Hajin seems to double as critique of "by, with and through" model:https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-security-france-syria/top-french-officer-raps-wests-tactics-against-is-in-syria-faces-punishment-idUSKCN1Q50LZ …
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Fire spt was directed to assist SDF ground forces. The French offr appears to advocate the use of coalition ground forces for the assault phase - nobody would ever sign up to that. The deaths of civilians was b/c IS deliberately deployed amongst them.
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"We have massively destroyed the infrastructure and given the population a disgusting image of what may be a Western-style liberation leaving behind the seeds of an imminent resurgence of a new adversary,"
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It was never a liberation per se, it was the defeat of a well dug-in enemy force with the town handed over to a militia force who will eventually hand it over to the Syrian government.
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The by, with and through model would have worked a lot better if the US was more invested in the northeast Syria democracy project and actually engaged in (gasp!) nation building.
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They've wasted endless billions trying to turn Iraq and Afghanistan into functioning societies, but they won't give their only reliable partner as much as a single APC or ATGM. If they had actually built up this force to be mechanized infantry it would have been over 2 years ago
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but nooo, of course, must not offend 'valued allies' in the Turkish state
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To quote a recent article: The military campaign against the Islamic State, Graham said, has been “the best return on investment in the history of warfare.”
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Aaah, the French. There will always be something to criticise.
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