CNN: U.S. officials say 6,000 ISIS fighters killed in battles
WNU Editor: Talk about timing .... only this morning I said no one should believe in Pentagon reports that they do not take body counts ..... The Pentagon Does Keep Body Counts.
More News On Claims That 6,000 Islamic State Fighters Have Been Killed By Coalition Air Strikes
John Kerry: Half of ISIS leaders killed by Iraq and allies -- CBS/AP
Kerry: Half of ISIS leaders have been killed -- Miami Herald
Air strikes killed 6,000 ISIS fighters: U.S. ambassador -- Al Arabiya
Over 6,000 IS Fighters Killed in US-Led Coalition Airstrikes -- Sputnik
Airstrikes have killed ‘thousands’ of IS fighters, Kerry says -- Globe and Mail
Update: Hagel casts doubt on ISIS body count -- The Hill
4 comments:
In the absence of it being a positional war, ( strategic or political), it must then be an attritional war, where progress and " winning" are measured in body counts.
If 6000 IS fighters have been killed, can someone tell me how many civilians have also been killed??
My understanding is that nobody is able to achieve less than 1:1 ratio, most conflicts being much higher with Israel being the closest to 1:1 according to Colonel Richard Kemp.
Maybe at the start of the bombing campaign they achieved a ratio less but IS quickly changed tactics and stopped moving in the open in large numbers and is now better dispersed/entrenched through the local populations.
So let me get my maths right, we are talking about over 6000 innocent civilians dead now and not a single bo peep from anyone, anywhere in the world?
No UN denunciations, no resolutions, no protest marches, no front page stories, nothing...
I thought that the world really does care about collateral damage in wartime or am I wrong??
I'm sure there are civilian casualties but if there was a large amount ISIS would be showing the world as propaganda.
There were 50 killed in an airstrike on a grainerynin ISIS held areas, but only the Syrian Observatory noted the deaths,
ISIS really doesn't need to highlight civillian deaths in it's areas, the locals all know anyway.
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