Why Did The Pentagon Falsify Reports About Military Successes In Fight Against ISIS?
December 11, 2015 Republicans from the House of representatives of the U.S. Congress announced the creation of a special task team that will investigate the facts of distortion of data about the operations of the coalition in Iraq and Syria. The group will be to identify falsification in the reports, as well as figure out whether the problem is systemic in nature. The decision to create special group was adopted in November after more than fifty analysts of CENTCOM complained that their reports on the results of operations of the coalition against ISIS have been reduced in order to present the situation more positively.
Despite the fact that the preliminary results of the investigation must b? submitted only in January, Rep Jackie Speier has confirmed that the falsifications which underestimate combat capabilities of ISIS took place indeed. As one of such examples is the May statement of General Thomas Weidle, which said ISIS “loses and remains in the defense”. However, immediately after his speech, terrorists has captured the Central quarter of Ramadi, the administrative center of Anbar province. If American leadership possessed a clear picture of what is happening, it could take emergency measures and even prevent the ingress of arms, military equipment and ammunition to the hands of militants. The value of US arms and military equipment captured by jihadists equals hundreds of million dollars.
Indeed questions about whether we can trust the CENTCOM generals had to appear in October last year when ISIS captured supplies which US Air Force were supposed to delivered to Kurdish militia in besieged Kobani. According to the military press-release, in order to avoid capturing one of the caches which was blown by the wind from the place of destination, the military container was destroyed by the air strike. The rest of caches were successfully delivered. However, Pentagon spokesman Steve Warren reported that the two containers were lost on the route and only one cache was destroyed.
Moreover the military representatives thwart one another talking about the diversion of weapons into the hands of terrorists, they are confused about the total number of dropped containers for Kobani defenders (Warren reported about 28 containers, whereas previously said only 6).
In addition, the soothing assurances that the container captured by ISIS won’t give any advantage to the enemy are not convincing. Pentagon reported that only 80% of water and food which were transported by air for religious minorities in northern Iraq were successfully delivered. And as we see the Kobani example shows that even the use of GPS-guided parachutes can’t be insured. So, how many weapon American taxpayers gave to jihadists?
“Carefully selected” participants of the CIA program on training “moderate” opposition who easily join the jihadists tell us about the lack of awareness or even falsity of the American military leadership. Thus in September 2015 almost immediately after arriving from training camps to Syria “Division 30” has transferred all their equipment, arms and ammunition to Jabhat al Nusra. Unfortunately that was not the first time. Once again the unit commander told about the shortage of instructors and the lack of supply during the preparation of the CIA program. But it was allocated about $500 million for these purposes! What the money was spent on? To buy weapons for terrorists!
During the discussion of 2016 budget, almost every article in the mainstream media avoided the issue connected with the effectiveness and practicability of training “moderate” opposition in order to fight ISIS to the issue of what are the results of this opposition efforts against Assad. Are these things of equal value?
We hope that the special group of the House of Representatives will identify not only the scale of the fraud reports about the results of the coalition activity against terrorism, but also those persons who are responsible for these misconducts, as well as their motives. The international community wants to know who exactly Pentagon supplies with weapons and what installations it bombs.
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Remember this one from the past:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU4GdHLUHwU
From the comments section:
The next day the Pentagons accounting office and the 2 buildings that held the evidence got hit by planes and the building with the law enforcement investigation (building 7) was ordered to be demolished during the chaos and the sheep were distracted for the next decade by something called 911.
A telling quote from 15 months back:
Even back then everyone knew what the problem was. And it was very much a case of political (White House) micro-management.
The same things happened in other air campaigns, but this one is by far the most obvious example. And for once they have a geographically discrete enemy force that a coalition really could have pounded the snot out of, and no one who mattered would have objected. Instead the political pussy-footing and lack of commitment has pissed everyone off, hurt credibility and made the situation far worse, and greatly delayed the routing of forces, in western and northern Iraq, and eastern Syria.
Successful air campaigns come together when the opponent has no time to recover from any of your previous hits, and the damage accrues so fast that collapse or effective fighting and organizing capacity unfolds from there.
For example, during the middle of the air attack on Iraq, in 2003, there was massive 3-day long regional dust storm and the Coalition forces were so determined to not give the Iraqi Republican Guards time to do anything but die, that they were flying in conditions where they were landing back on carrier decks they could not see until real close, because cockpit canopies were being scratched up by all the sand in the atmosphere and the low levels were solid dust storm. They did not stop a single sortie even when they knew it would be abraiding engine compressor and fan blades. They knew if they stopped it would give the Iraqis time to organize and begin to fight back effectively, and get mobile enough to avoid destruction and take longer to finish the job.
But against ISIL, no one has let the air power do what it can, so most of the benefit that could have occurred at the beginning, didn't occur. And it's early accrual of effects you want, as if you kill te most at the beginning they are not there for the rest of the conflict and can do far less cumulative harm. The biggest beneficial effect is to be had right at the beginning, and it has to be a big, or else they just escape and adapt, as they did, and the opportunity to get lasting effects on their force is lost.
When the Taliban was cleared out of Afghanistan's north back to Pakistan it was almost all the result of heavy precision bombing followed up by special forces, plus Afghan tribal forces. The country and Capital were cleared in a few weeks, because no punches were pulled and once it started it was heavy and relentless, and no one interfered politically.
Post cold war precision-guided air power is proven - it works.
But it needs to be used the way the actual air power practitioners know how to, to make it work, or else it simply doesn't work.
And it never works when political interference occurs in its execution, in any prior example that I know off.
But in every precision-guidance era example that I know of, when an air attack was seriously concerted, and not politically frigged with by the administration of the day, but just given a clear set of military (as opposed to political) objectives and predefined end points those have been achieved very rapidly and decisively - every single time.
The White House thinks that being a commander in chief and a bunch of sycophantic advisers means they must know what they are doing.
But everyone else seems to know they're dangerously incompetent.
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Think about that in the context of a tool in the White House parrying with a nuclear adversary, who actually knows what to do. In my personal view the options for political micro-management of conflicts need to be completely taken out of the reach of the latest Nobel Peace Prize aspirant. I don't know how that could be done, but the current arrangement is a circus. As per separation of church and state, there needs to be a similar 'separation of powers' between an administration ordering a clear military and strategic objective be executed, and the military force being left to getting it done within the bounds of law.
If they are executing within the bounds of law, why does a White House admin ever have an excuse to interfere with or micro-manage military operations?
In the current case it's simple, there's no defined military objectives or end state conditions at all, just confused contradictory nonsense, and endless political vacillation that's makes a mockery of the whole professional process of air power application, but more to the point, it actually cast critical doubt on something that absolutely know works, and incredibly well. But only when there's a competent political leader who knows to shut the hell up, get out of the way, and let the forces get on with their professional services. That's why they're called armed services.
If you order a pizza, through a pizza delivery service you do not stay on the phone and micro-manage the step by step making of that pizza. Want to play pizza cook? Then go make your own fucking pizza you jerk!
Think the Russians may have learnt that lesson from the US experience and are applying it, within the limits of their rescources, in Syria.
The differance is, Putin locked up the Zionists, while Washington is run by them.
What are you talking about. They are obviously not hitting ISIS deliberately. It has nothing to do with incompetence.
Incompetence is the excuse the psychopath uses to prevent his neck being stretched.
Which would be political interference, would it not?
Because it was never supposed to be a military conflict. US pursued regime change mantra in Syria. Purposely meddling in other countries and disrupting their state.
What the ... ? ... dude it's been a military conflict for 4 years ... a civil war is actually a military conflict you know?
To your other two sentences ... yeah ... yeah ... that ... that does look a bit dodgy.
Fret not, Hillary or Trumper will be along shortly to make it considerably worse - only 380 more sleeps!
But as it's that very special time of year a little present for you, some free pootie analysis.
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Putin End of Year Messages: The Next Steps in the Agenda
2016-01-02
By Richard Weitz
Recent weeks have offered several opportunities to better understand the Kremlin’s worldview.
On December 3, President Vladimir Putin delivered his annual presidential address to the Federal Assembly at the Kremlin’s St George Hall before an audience of more than 1,000 people.
Putin again called for a World War II-grand coalition against international terrorism under Russian leadership. Appealing to the West to set aside differences with Moscow over Ukraine and other issues, Putin warned that:
“The international community should have learned from the past lessons,” especially how the “unwillingness to join forces against Nazism in the 20th century cost us millions of lives in the bloodiest world war in human history.”
Putin rightly noted that international terrorism could not be defeated by just one country given its transnational nature, “especially in a situation when the borders are practically open, and the world is going through another resettlement of peoples, while terrorists are getting regular financial support.”
More controversially, Putin claimed that, “Russia has demonstrated immense responsibility and leadership in the fight against terrorism” through its Syrian campaign.
Putin claimed that Russia was killing terrorists in Syria who would otherwise return to their home countries, including in Russia and the other former Soviet republics, “to sow fear and hatred, to blow up, kill and torture people. We must fight and eliminate them there, away from home.”
He therefore cited self-defense as well as “an official request from the legitimate Syrian authorities” to justify Russian military operations in Syria.
Through miscalculation and malign intent, Putin accused U.S. policy of contributing to the rise of global terrorism and other disorders. He claimed that by undermining the stable and prosperous Kremlin-friendly regimes in Iraq, Libya and Syria, U.S. policy makers had “plunged them into chaos and anarchy” and created a global threat:
“They stirred up trouble, destroyed the countries’ statehood, set people against each other, and then ‘washed their hands,’ as we say in Russia, thus opening the way to radical activists, extremists and terrorists.”
Following Turkey’s downing of the Russian warplane, a new thrust in the Kremlin’s line has been accusing Ankara of colluding with terrorists.
“We know who are stuffing pockets in Turkey and letting terrorists prosper from the sale of oil they stole in Syria. The terrorists are using these receipts to recruit mercenaries, buy weapons and plan inhuman terrorist attacks against Russian citizens and against people in France, Lebanon, Mali and other states.”
Putin alleged that the “current ruling establishment” in Ankara was “directly responsible for the deaths of our servicemen in Syria” and shooting “our pilots in the back.”
Instead of treating the incident as an act of self-defense in response to the Russian military’s numerous violations of Russian air space or attacks on ethnic Turks in Syria, Putin accused the Turkish government of treachery and collusion with anti-Russian terrorism: “We have always deemed betrayal the worst and most shameful thing to do.”
In his December 17 annual news conference, Putin made clear why he was so angry at the Turkish government — it turned to NATO to cover its aggressive policies towards Russia. Instead of calling Moscow to “straighten things out…they immediately ran to Brussels…[and] started covering themselves with NATO.”
Moscow may have hoped that a combination of military threats and economic inducements could detach Turkey from NATO, and now Putin was vetting his anger that the strategy had failed.
Putin claimed that the Turkish leaders were irrational in rejecting Russian offers of partnership, claiming that Moscow was “ready to cooperate with Turkey on all the most sensitive issues it had; we were willing to go further, where its allies refused to go.”
Instead, they irrationally chose to work with NATO to confront Russia.
Putin concluded that, “probably, Allah has decided to punish the ruling clique in Turkey by taking their mind and reason.” Although Turkey’s nationalist government might not have seen value in becoming Russia’s proxy in the Middle East and Southeast Europe.
Now Moscow would punish Ankara: “if someone thinks they can commit a heinous war crime, kill our people and get away with it, suffering nothing but a ban on tomato imports, or a few restrictions in construction or other industries, they’re delusional. We’ll remind them of what they did, more than once. They’ll regret it.”
Although Putin’s harangue against the Turks and Americans distracts from economic problems at home, he is risking tactical gains for strategic losses, such as an end to the mutually profitable energy partnership between Russia and Turkey. Whereas in the past the two countries were able to compartmentalize their differences to cooperate on energy, we could now see a lengthy energy standoff since both countries think they have more leverage — Turkey can get Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) from Qatar and more gas from Iran while Russia no longer considers is southern European energy projects as viable given low world energy prices and may hope that by cooperating with Iran in Syria they can dissuade Tehran from steeling Russian energy customers in Europe.
Furthermore, Putin implied U.S.-Turkish collusion in the downing of the plane, saying “I can imagine that certain agreements were reached at some level that they would down a Russian plane, while the U.S. closes its eyes to Turkish troops entering Iraq, and occupying it.”
He went even further and suggested that the Turks and Americans had created ISIS to protect the illegal truck conveys delivering Iraqi oil: “Of course, they needed a military force to protect smuggling operations and illegal exports….. That’s how I think, ISIS came about.”
In any case, Putin has confirmed that Russia has responded by increasing its military presence in Syria by raising the number of its warplanes, strengthening the Syrian government’s air defenses, and deploying Russia’s most advanced air defense system to the country, the S-400.
The intent is clearly to present Turkey and its allies with a robust ground-based air defense systems which they hope will be viewed as and capable of providing an Anti Access Area Denial (A2/AD) capability that excludes their establishing a no-fly zone or freely operating in Syrian air space: “Turkish planes used to fly there all the time, violating Syrian air space. Let them try it now.”
In his news conference, Putin said that the Russian contingency would leave Syria only when that country’s government desired such a withdrawal.
“When we see that the process of rapprochement has begun and the Syrian army and Syrian authorities believe that the time has come to stop shooting and to start talking, this is when we will stop being more Syrian than Syrians themselves. “
But while Putin said he agreed with the Western call for a political solution, he rejected the Western demand that Syrian President Bashir Assad had to leave the political scene as part of that process.
Putin expounded in his October 22 speech at Sochi that the ultimate solution to the Syrian War would require “a political process with participation by all healthy, patriotic forces of the Syrian society,” Putin insisted that this must occur “with exclusively civil, respectful assistance from the international community, and not under external pressure through ultimatums, blackmail or threats.”
Putin brushed aside the objections to Assad: “I think it wrong to even ask this question. How can we ask and decide from outside whether this or that country’s leader should stay or go. This is a matter for the Syrian people to decide” with at most “international monitoring of these procedures, including election procedures, but this must be objective monitoring.”
For the near future, however, Putin saw the priority as “strengthening state institutions in the conflict zone” through economic and other assistance and improving international cooperation between Russia and the West on the issue of fighting international terrorism.
With respect to fighting international terrorism, Putin highlighted the cross-cutting role of the United States in the Syrian situation.
“As far as we know – although it would be great if I am mistaken” that the Pentagon was providing anti-tank and anti-armor weapons systems and are training gunners” among the Syrian government’s opposition notwithstanding that this weaponry will certainly fall into the hands of terrorist organizations” who will use these weapons and skills against Americans as well as Russians.
In his end-of-year news conference, Putin addressed the budgetary implications of the Syrian conflict, terming the costs manageable: “We are conducting limited operations with the use of our Aerospace Forces, air-defense systems and reconnaissance systems. This does not involve any serious strain, including strain on the budget.
Some of the resources that we earmarked for military training and exercises – we simply retargeted them to the operations of our Aerospace Defence Forces in Syria.
Something needs to be thrown in, but this does not have any significant impact on the budget.”
Interestingly, Putin was coy whether Russia would retain its newly expanded military facilities in Syria. “I don’t know if we need a base there. A military base implies considerable infrastructure and investment.
After all, what we have there today is our planes and temporary modules, which serve as a cafeteria and dormitories. We can pack up in a matter of two days, get everything aboard Antei transport planes and go home.”
Putin also noted that Russia had demonstrated in the campaign that its long-range strike capabilities could hold targets at risk with the “1,500-kilometre-range Kalibr sea-based missile and aircraft-carried Kh-101 missile with a 4,500-kilometre range.”
But it seems unlikely that Russia would willingly withdraw from its newly augmented military facilities in Syria, which can allow Russia to sustain naval and air systems that can extend its military network deep into the eastern Mediterranean.
Russian military strategy in Syria still seems aimed not at returning all of Syrian territory to the government’s control but at ensuring that the country’s critical areas, including the Russian bases, remain under the control of a Russian proxy regime.
Whatever happens to the Russian bases in Syria, the downing of the Russian third-generation warplane by Turkey and the enhanced Russian-provided air defenses in Syria (and Iran) should make clear to NATO militaries that only fifth planes such as the F-35 can operate in the contested weapon-engagement zones of the modern Middle East, and it appears the F-22 is doing so.
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Just a wee clash of world view ... I don't think they buy the schmooze routine.
I'm very late to this party, Element- I simply ask that you consider one possibility;
The CiC role was taken from the puppet President along about the same time as Tricky Dick abrogated (completely) our obligations as the responsible stewards of the planet's monetary system.
The bankers run this military, Element! Ya' shouldn't wonder why it makes no sense to us peons!
Lots of changes in the military over the last few decades or so....everything focused on PC, superficial come by-ya, feelings, sexual harassment awareness training, mental health, and endless hours of bureaucratic busy-work. Those with any real focus on the mission are weeded out and overwhelmed with the above. The senior ranks are made up of weak kiss ass sycophants or psychopaths...thus, the word goes out...tell them what they want to hear the first time or your information gets buried in a morass of bureaucratic editing in the coordination process. If it does survive the process, any information contrary to the predetermined/wanted result is watered down to the point of being meaningless or totally edited out. If they cannot get the results they want from within the system/process (and sometimes that happens)....they create a "special team" to do the job. This is a systemic problem throughout the military and other agencies.
I can only speak for the Air force, but they are run by total evangelical nut-jobs, who are all about Israel and the "second coming".
I can't speak for any of 'em, but it appears to me as if the blind are leading the blind, just now.
And they piss on the Muslim practice of praying to Mecca five times a day?
Scratch that! We're all Bozo's on this bus!
The Russians and Iranians sure picked up on how utterly stupid these morons really are.It is very similar in nature to the planned CIA operation of pouring billions into the Ukraine to bribe right wing extremists and hence overthrow a government.You'd actually think that two more well designed bottomless pits were put in place to continue to destroy the United States' financial system from within.One in syria and another in Ukraine.Look at the various useless wars of bombing and collapsing whole countries at the cost of trillions.Libya,Afghanistan,Iraq,Syria etc.Makes you wonder why the government treats its own people in America like shit?Self economic destruction or what?By an inner CIA group of Wolfowitz embeciles.
Its amazing what you can get away with when you control the media, here, there, and everywhere.
.......and the justice system, and the Whitehouse, and congress, and the monetary system, and the IRS, and the education system, and movies, and ....
By "moderate", we mean the middlemen who are to complete delivery to Isis.
Truer words were never spoken.
....whilst they do their pre ISIS internship.
The Pentagon has itself gone rogue, controlled by NeoCON ZIO-SCUMMM* - with names like Paul "Rat Face" Wolfowitz, "Mad Dog" Mc McCain, The KKK (KAGAN Kriminal Kabal) - on behalf of the foreign, alien entity ISISrael.
Those fools parading around in medals & ribbons can hardly state that - so they have to fabricate what amounts to a phoney war against ISIS.
It aint, as they say, "Rocket Science".
(SCUMMM* - Satanic Cabal Underwriting Mass-Murder & Mayhem)
as someone who did 22 years in the Army I can say that every general officer in the military needs to be fired
I believe most of them were fired in the last few years, and replaced with even worse boob jobs.
as someone who did 22 years in the Army I can say that every general officer in the military needs to be fired
He was regular Army too.
I heard he shot himself in the head.
Who wrote this? Some computer that doesn't know proper English? Perhaps one of those newly graduated people from the no kid left behind program. They should be embarrassed.
Got to wonder why y'all are paying taxes.
Your avatar explains it. We are slaves. Plus it causes dissent: some have to pay and some don't.
Falsifying documents produced wealth for somebody. That's your answer. It always is, isn't it?
Why Pentagon lies?? Asked your POTUS, dude.
Watch this Discovery video:
https://youtu.be/53sAEQ0rYyU
If you want to know WHY pentagon lies? Fast forward to playtime 35:30 (but i suggest you watch it the whole documentary about american spy satellites programs. That dude that spoke in playtime 35:30 is the first people that read this spy satellites images. It will worth your time.)
Now, if that happens in vietnam time (and before, with North Korea's war with McArthur), it happens again with your bush jr (remember he claimed to have won the iraq war. Only to see his soldier died in urban warfare).
And it happens again with obomba. Remember his pentagon aides said its too soon to withdraw from Afghan & Iraq? Now you see obomba had to send back his troops back there.
I like the quotes from that documentary movie:
"Images (from spy networks) are always TRUE. But people CAN LIES!!"
It is always depend on the people on top. Do your POTUS ready to FACE THE TRUTH? Or whether he/she just wants to hear THE GOOD NEWS ONLY!!
And that, Dudes? Is depend on the BASIC CHARACTERS of that man/women in power..
".....will identify..... those persons who are responsible for this misconduct, as well as their motives."
No one in government is ever held personally accountable for anything.
Er the whores in the whorehouse are going to investigate the high class whores in CENTCOM who falsify reports generated by their underlings who snitched on them. It sounds so sexciting, I think I'll hold my breath and wait for a positive outcome.
congress wants to increase the DoD budget fy2016 from $585 Billion to ~ $600 Billion
this doesn't include earmarks etc., that require any explanations from congress, which, btw... is bought and paid for by 101 Con & k-street
the MIC gets there 50% and the IC/IIC (Intelligence Community/ Intelligence Industrial Complex)gets there annual $55 Billion +/+[black budget ~xtra $10Billion for good measure]
taxes, moar taxes, mucho moar[ass?] taxes for joe 6-pack and famin'ily...
list of top 100 war profiteers from 2013 on the k-st/ 100 congress ave., dole[?!]:: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_100_Contractors_of_the_U.S._federal_government
Pay close attention to CACI Int'l, ManTech Int'l, and L-3 Communications ie. C4ISR is ???
CENTCOM has been a Cofer Black & George Tenet (the greatest war crimes syndicate master of the warring`profiteering... zee`rainmaker$$$'s extradinaire!) for the admirals, generals, and ex. top security clearance profiteers
fucking traitors all doing 'GODs Work'?
fuck BUSh's and fuck Rumsfeld, Cheney for where were at today
ps, obi! is no better
we are fucked!!!
congress is still going through the body count data from vietnam
I was at a party yesterday where a young soldier was saying he was headed to Syria in a few days and then off to maybe Afghanistan (?). I did not talk to him as he seemed a little too into who/what he was and he did not seem too intelligent.
Why? You ask why? Easy: NO ONE gives a shit about ANYTHING except: 1) COVERING THEIR OWN SWEET SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE ASS 2) keeping the paychecks rolling in so they don't actually have to try to survive in (YUCK) the REAL WORLD 3) Limping across the dot gov 20 year retirement finish line with pension intact. THAT"S IT. NO HONOR. NO DIGNITY. NODEVOTION TO THEIR COUNTRY OR SOMETHING LARGER THAN THEMSELVES.
That applies to every level .... of government/welfare statism .... this is why Socialism fails .... and why it endures ?
Westmorland is still counting VC KIA.
ISIS .... please bomb some of these Congressional hearings ?
How much of that $500 million was stolen and deposited in secret Swiss or Cayman Islands bank accounts by US Military and CIA personnel? 10%—$50 million? 20%—$100 million? More? Follow the money. Always follow the money!