Monday, August 4, 2014

Logistics: Using Water As A Weapon Of War

But up until that point the article is worth heeding in its warnings. For those of us who believe that the current system and infrastructure cannot and will not continue due to the ideological and moral rot at its core, there are a number of object lessons. First of all, without logistics – and this includes ordnance, food, ammunition, water, clothing, hygiene products – an army cannot even survive, much less be effective and succeed. But this goes for men and their families too.
See also, from today's headlines: Islamic State grabs Iraqi dam and oilfield in victory over Kurds
Islamic State fighters seized control of Iraq's biggest dam, an oilfield and three more towns on Sunday after inflicting their first major defeat on Kurdish forces since sweeping across much of northern Iraq in June.
Capture of the electricity-generating Mosul Dam, after an offensive of barely 24 hours, could give the Sunni militants the ability to flood major Iraqi cities or withhold water from farms, raising the stakes in their bid to topple Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Shi'ite-led government.
"The terrorist gangs of the Islamic State have taken control of Mosul Dam after the withdrawal of Kurdish forces without a fight," said Iraqi state television.
But a Kurdish official in Washington told Reuters the dam was still under the control of Kurdish "peshmerga" troops, although
he said towns around the dam had fallen to Islamic State forces.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What a waste of lives and treasure that "police action" has turned out to be.

Matt Bracken Was Right said...

What with the EPA and every sordid kind of crook thief grifter and tyrant imaginable involved in denying us our property happiness and liberty through environmental diktat and the political big lie vehicle of global warming, just How is the islamic state any different than the statist regime once known as the US Government?

Along with citizen disarmament, pogrom and genocide, controlling the peoples food water and energy is tyranny 101.