Originally Posted By HIPPO:
I believe it. There has been a big set of changes since Musk took over and many of them aren’t good.  

Originally Posted By Former11BRAVO:


I'm suspended for calling Hakim Jefferies a "commie fuck head".

I don't expect my appeal will land on sympathetic ears...

Originally Posted By Matanzas:

I’m trying to keep up so help me out. Is Biden on team Islam or did he approve US boots on the ground? I’ve seen comments saying both. Pick one, you can’t have it both ways.

Originally Posted By 1969iggy:

Its not a party.  It's fathers and brothers and sons (and mothers/daughters/sisters) going to war.  Some of them won't come back.  Lots of kids and parents who were thankful their loved one survived last weekend will be heartbroken by the end result of this.  I appreciate the enthusiasm and support for Israel, but please don't be so chevalier.  It's not CoD.  None of them get to respawn.

Originally Posted By Chokker:



German special forces are on the ground also.

Originally Posted By realwar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow33a9iKmr4

Originally Posted By kncook:


Most on Telegram, many in foreign language still since this is not stuff news outlets are showing the west…too sensitive or extreme. Telegram is like a Russian/middle east Twitter but much more uncensored. It’s where most of the Ukraine/Russia combat stuff is posted first.

Originally Posted By Chokker:


Someone just posted in a fb post for prayers for a Seal Team Unit that is on the ground in Israel, shitz

I hear IDF Col. Golan Vach being interviewed...describing some of the challenges he’s encountered in this tragedy, including removing 120 bodies from a bonfire constructed by Hamas of its victims at the Supernova outdoor music festival, where over 260 people were massacred.

At Be’eri, where a sizable number of the 2,000-plus terrorists headed in pickup trucks and on motorbikes after bursting through the border nine days ago, the bodies of the 103 residents slaughtered here have been removed. So, too, the bodies of those in uniform who fell in the kibbutz’s defense. And the bodies of over 100 terrorists.

The fighting in the wider area raged for 50 hours — until the last of the terrorists was dealt with, and the threats to the Gaza-envelope area’s residents were deemed over. By then, a tenth of this kibbutz’s population was dead.

A failure to comprehend the nature of the enemy

...there was a belief inside the IDF that Hamas’s increasing professionalism would one day mean a harder struggle for the army, not that the terror group’s improved killing skills would continue to be primarily directed against civilians.

Despite the suicide bombings, summer camps training young kids to kill, and the bloodthirsty rhetoric, there was, in our army, a failure to comprehend that Hamas simply wants to kill Jews, and that its evolution into an increasingly effective and disciplined fighting force would do nothing to make it any less savage. (This, of course, parallels the political and security leadership’s assessment that Hamas could and had been deterred, that it could be bought off with the permitted influxes of Qatari money, and that it was interested in governance rather than slaughter.)

...one of the key details that emerged from our horror tour of Be’eri — ...the prime targets were the civilians.

Those who fought in this area quickly noticed car after Israeli car with the trunk open, the contents strewn on the ground, and the spare tire missing. At first, they thought the vehicles had been looted. But why take only the tires? And then they realized this was part of the Hamas planning — taking the tires to help set fire to the homes where many residents were trying to protect themselves in their saferooms, and either to burn them alive inside or to shoot them when they were forced out by the flames and the smoke.

...the Air Force could not use its capabilities effectively inside Israel, where the terrorists, the IDF and civilians were in close proximity, for fear of killing our own people. (Update, October 18: Many of the terrorists, I neglected to mention when I first published this piece, had donned army and army-style uniforms, to make the task of the IDF troops still more confusing and dangerous.)

...our leaders muster the strategic and tactical wisdom to ensure,...no more delusions about the enemy they are fighting. Hamas, as I’ve written before, will be on home ground, and believes it is luring Israel into a death trap. It will have known that Israel will enter Gaza after October 7, and it may well know more about Israel’s capabilities and plans having overrun IDF bases that black day.

Originally Posted By atavistic:
Doesn't seem like a ground move is imminent. ISR will be fully mobilized 2 weeks this weekend. This party is getting expensive.

Originally Posted By MortimerS:
Is the IDF going to in to get these fuckers yet or are they letting them prep even more.

Originally Posted By 1969iggy:

Maybe i don't want him to be a French knight?  

ETA Holy smokes, i finally caught up.  Now i'm going out for a drink (after drinking many drinks here).  What's the under/over on how many pages before i stumble home hammered?  I am going with 6.

Originally Posted By Ratchet27:
519!

Originally Posted By Jaehaerys:

HAMAS has had many years to prepare for this contingency (all out Israeli ground invasion), and don't think that they haven't. They almost certainly knew while planning this attack that this would be a very likely outcome. The IDF likely could use a bit more time softening HAMAS up with fires, massing their forces, preparing their reservists, etc. If you want to see what happens when an unprepared force assaults tenacious defenders in an urban environment, look no further than the first battle of Grozny.

Originally Posted By HIPPO:
I believe it. There has been a big set of changes since Musk took over and many of them aren’t good.  

Originally Posted By Former11BRAVO:

I would envision them thinking outside the box. Perhaps the price in IDF blood won't be quite as high as we'd suppose.

At least, I hope not.

Originally Posted By Bat15:



Everything you said is true. The only problem is it all takes time. Time we may not have.

Originally Posted By thesilvercord:
LMAO!

This appears to be the Statue of Qasem Soleimani that was Destroyed by an Israeli Airstrike tonight in Southern Lebanon; the Statue was at a Park called the “Iran Garden” in the Town of Maroun al-Ras which Overlooks the Israeli Border. pic.twitter.com/N23D102KY4

OSINTdefender  (@sentdefender) October 18, 2023

https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/327183/3434D5F6-E390-4DB5-8712-7719B960D600_jpe-2996499.JPG

Originally Posted By HIMARS13A:


The Army has 1,000,000 soldiers. We never had more than 170,000 in Iraq at any given time.

If you actually mobilize the nation, you can put a half a million men in the field, but you can't sustain it for more than a year or two.

That's with no redeployment until the end of the war, WWII style.

Originally Posted By CarmelBytheSea:

180,000

Originally Posted By CarmelBytheSea:

180,000 https://www.dvidshub.net/news/39144/us-troops-cleaning-out-garages-iraq
https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/459941/IMG_6287_jpeg-2996522.JPG

Originally Posted By FistPeso:


Can you stop filling this thread with this garbage?

Originally Posted By texashomeserver:

OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
According to Al-Jazeera, the Israeli Defense Force reportedly carried out an Airstike in Southern Syria tonight which resulted in the Destruction of a Hezbollah Military Convoy.

Originally Posted By Cpt_Kirks:
Bot killer.

Originally Posted By TripleC:
Is this channel live?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfySyymO4NM

Originally Posted By texashomeserver:
Allahu Akbar India!

Muslims who attend Delhi University burned the Israeli flags and showed their support for Hamas, their brothers in Jihad.

The Islamic supremacists took a break from terrorizing Hindus to express their deep-seated hatred of Israelis and Jews.  (These are the same Muslim actors who pretend they are being oppressed by the Modi government)

https://twitter.com/i/status/1714784760537747568