What's Old Is New Again....
Given its history in military nomenclature, the name of our latest operation in Iraq seems a bit ironic:
U.S. forces, joined by Iraqi troops, on Thursday launched the largest air assault since the U.S.-led invasion, targeting insurgent strongholds north of the capital, the military said.
The U.S. military said the offensive dubbed Operation Swarmer was aimed at clearing "a suspected insurgent operating area" northeast of Samarra and was expected to continue over several days.
Associated Press, March 16, 2006
This week, 32,000 U.S. troops will begin dropping in parachutes or landing in troop-carrier planes on the green hills around Fort Bragg and Camp Mackall, N.C. Jet fighters will whisk overhead, giving them air cover. Cargo planes will fly in with all their supplies, for "Operation Swarmer" is designed to prove that a combat area, e.g., an island base for strategic bombers, can be taken and held by airborne troops entirely supplied by air. Operation Swarmer will also demonstrate something more important: the nation's unpreparedness.
Time, May 1, 1950
Indeed.
U.S. forces, joined by Iraqi troops, on Thursday launched the largest air assault since the U.S.-led invasion, targeting insurgent strongholds north of the capital, the military said.
The U.S. military said the offensive dubbed Operation Swarmer was aimed at clearing "a suspected insurgent operating area" northeast of Samarra and was expected to continue over several days.
Associated Press, March 16, 2006
This week, 32,000 U.S. troops will begin dropping in parachutes or landing in troop-carrier planes on the green hills around Fort Bragg and Camp Mackall, N.C. Jet fighters will whisk overhead, giving them air cover. Cargo planes will fly in with all their supplies, for "Operation Swarmer" is designed to prove that a combat area, e.g., an island base for strategic bombers, can be taken and held by airborne troops entirely supplied by air. Operation Swarmer will also demonstrate something more important: the nation's unpreparedness.
Time, May 1, 1950
Indeed.
posted by The Cunning Realist at Thursday, March 16, 2006
10 Comments:
It should have been:
Operation Fix My Falling Polling Numbers
Maybe that was too long
Sounds like the right time for China to take Taiwan.
First of all, is there someone at the Pentagon who has a full-time, well-paid job coming up with these operations' names? If so, I would like that position removed. My tax dollars should not go to stuff like that.
Second, this operation belongs on the border of Afghanistan/Pakiston.
This sounds like something involving bees or a really bad B-grade movie from Hollywood.
New name has emerged for the military operation:
Operation Fucking Fake or O.F.F.
Bring Them Back
Bring them back from Iraq
'Cause they never should have gone there
It was wrong all along to attack
And the price we'll pay is high there
They shouldn't have to die there
Bring them back from Iraq, bring them back
Some interesting reports coming out about this operation, everything from it was a propaganda ploy to increase Bush's poll numbers, to it ain't much of anything.
Time had to say, "On Scene: How Operation Swarmer Fizzled"
Time had one of the best issues covering the start-up of the war.
Murtha was saying the same thing: "Administration Claims Of Winning The War, Blaming The Media Repeat Vietnam-Era Mistakes"
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