Reports That ISIS Has Been Destroyed May Be Greatly Exaggerated
By Jeff Schogol
on August 17, 2018
There’s math and then there’s military math. Take counting enemy troops, for example. Say you add up the number of nostrils between them and then divide that number by two. Is that a reliable method? Certainly not, because commanders have a toolbox of tricks to conceal the true size of their forces.
In August 2017, U.S. defense officials announced that the Pentagon had been undercounting the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan by not including thousands of service members on temporary assignments to the country. The practice was inherited from the Obama administration, which was fixated on keeping troop levels low to give the impression that all was right with the world. (It was this strategy that allowed the Democrats to gain the upper hand in the 2016 election.)
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