The exact quote is:
This is skipping over the talking stage and getting right to the "other means."
Mosul is the big prize they captured. We're telling them "we are coming."
They can either stand and fight or withdraw. Withdrawal would, by far, be the smarter move but can they do that and maintain their credibility among the firebrands?
If they fight and lose the brand gets tarnished too. The big problem with conquering a place is that you have to defend it or abandon it.
The more I think about it this is not telling them anything they did not already know. They had to figure the Iraqis would be coming after them and Mosul is the best target to go after. What else is there? Fallujah?
Quote:“War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.”
― Carl von Clausewitz,
This is skipping over the talking stage and getting right to the "other means."
Mosul is the big prize they captured. We're telling them "we are coming."
They can either stand and fight or withdraw. Withdrawal would, by far, be the smarter move but can they do that and maintain their credibility among the firebrands?
If they fight and lose the brand gets tarnished too. The big problem with conquering a place is that you have to defend it or abandon it.
The more I think about it this is not telling them anything they did not already know. They had to figure the Iraqis would be coming after them and Mosul is the best target to go after. What else is there? Fallujah?
