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2016-04-21T20:18:51-04:00 2016-04-21T20:18:51-04:00 Capt Mark Strobl 1470437

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="807466" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/807466-cpt-joseph-k-murdock">CPT Joseph K Murdock</a> - To paraphrase an old cliché: "Throw enough s*** on the wall, something will stick." Re-taking Mosul is one thing. Maintaining it is another. We have to have two things in order to achieve success here: 1.) Support of the indigenous people; and 2.) a clearly defined political end-state. I am doubtful of either.

2016-04-21T22:10:37-04:00 2016-04-21T22:10:37-04:00 CPT Private RallyPoint Member 1470697

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>When you say "WE" you must have a Kurd in her pocket. This isn't our fight. We will be aiding them but we won't be taking back Mosul. The Iraqis will and I don't think they will be able too.

2016-04-22T00:58:52-04:00 2016-04-22T00:58:52-04:00 1LT William Clardy 1471157

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Most likely because the odds for success are still just SWAGs, <a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="807466" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/807466-cpt-joseph-k-murdock">CPT Joseph K Murdock</a>. Besides, when using troops who are green, easily demoralized, and have a reputation for folding up like a lawn chair, any open prediction of likely failure (or even a "hard fight") can become self-fulfilling with one ill-timed reversal.

2016-04-22T09:37:21-04:00 2016-04-22T09:37:21-04:00 CPT Joseph K Murdock 1471541

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The coalition of Iraqis, Americans, and Kurds will take back Mosul.

2016-04-22T11:59:51-04:00 2016-04-22T11:59:51-04:00 CPT Joseph K Murdock 1472040

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>My question is will ISIS duke it out or run like they did in Ramadi? That's when the Apaches step in.

2016-04-22T15:05:55-04:00 2016-04-22T15:05:55-04:00 2016-04-21T20:18:51-04:00