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Originally Posted by Neil
Are you suggesting we strap bombs onto our lads and send them in to blow themselves up?
Are you volunteering?
No of course I don't think we should fight them in the same way. I do think we should go in properly and stop playing with planes. Nobody thinks airstrikes will destroy ISIS, boots on the ground are the only thing that might.
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Hang on! Boots on the ground?? Playing with planes?
ISIS strength,12,000 to 30,000(hard to get up to date figures), little armour, no planes. Fighting on two fronts,Iraq and Syria.
Iraqi Army 200,000 to 270,000 troops, 555,000 Special forces and armed police, 340 tanks(a lot of them M1s), 3700 Armoured personnel Carriers, back up combat helicopters and planes etc,etc, $25 billion spent by USA alone on equipment and training.
Peshmurga(Kurdish) 190,000,some tanks and APCs.
If we send in the whole British Army, including cooks, clerks and the sick(like Rorke's Drift?) we might find 80,000.
They're all going to be falling over each other. Are our troops really needed to back up forces like that or do the Iraqis need to get their act together, with us and many others providing air power?
Isis could have been crushed long ago, if the will was there, for a mixture of reasons it doesn't appear to be.