(01-07-2020, 10:21 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(01-07-2020, 10:14 PM)mikesez Wrote: Exactly. 
The American troops get priority for primo spots in the bunker.
The Iraqis are the most vulnerable.
It's not sustainable unless the Iraqis love us, unless they feel they need us.
If all the American troops are in a bunker, and all the Iraqis are above ground, who's to say the Iraqis will let our guys out?
Obviously it's more complicated than that, and obviously dudes smarter than me spend all day thinking about OpSec, but, the parts I'm leaving out don't change the final analysis: if the Iraqis don't want us there, our presence is not sustainable.

I wonder if Iran did that on purpose.  It's still bad but it would of been much worse for Iran if there were US casualties