U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Lynn Morelly watches bundles of halal meals parachute to the ground from the ramp of a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft during a humanitarian airdrop mission over Iraq, Aug. 9, 2014. Morelly is a loadmaster assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Vernon Young Jr.
Iraq Militants Changing Tactics, Complicating US Airstrike Mission -- FOX News
Islamic militant forces in northern Iraq appear to be shifting tactics in the face of the newly launched U.S. airstrike campaign, Defense officials say, posing a new challenge to the Obama administration as it seeks to at least slow the terrorists’ advances.
According to officials, until now the Islamic State (IS) was behaving like a well-organized army, moving with strategic intent and pursuing military objectives. Now, officials are seeing at least a partial shift to classic insurgency tactics, as militants begin to blend in among the population, making targeting more difficult.
“One of the things that we have seen with the [IS] forces is that where they have been in the open, they are now starting to dissipate and to hide amongst the people,” Lt. Gen. William Mayville Jr., director for operations with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said. “The targeting in this is going to become more difficult.”
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