Hey, why not DKOS ??? Take it to the bank!
We got contacts at the White House. They want to elect their favorite presidential candidate. Why not cut a deal like Halliburton in the 00's ?
Sure thing: we back off a skosh on pushing Bernie Sanders, they give us a multi-billion dollar MMM war biz contract.
My pick's a bombing gig just like in Heller's Catch 22. We could damn near use B-24s.
Go big. Live large. Tote up $3 billion a year gross revenues. Draft a Milo Minderbinder MakeABuck one year non-compete to take over bombing ISIS in Syria and Iraq. These are milk runs. Walk overs, bombing idiots. USAF hasn't lost a plane there ion a year of missions. And subcontracting to Russia/2Stans/Iran with a modest 5% fee, bombers carrying a DK Air Force sticker like NASCAR can net this DK Air Force $150 million a year to cover server fees!
It's doable. CIA contracts out War Biz merc work 24/7/365. DoD is spending $9 million a day and they're only getting 20 hits for that. That's nothin'. Hell, that's fewer boom-booms that the Kurds delivered last week with their artillery barrages in the area around Kobani and Tal Abyad.
Go For Broke
As an alternative there's loosing the world's bounty hunters on them. ISIS has 50,000 fighters. Our own CSA Investor suggested a $1,000,000-a-head bounty.
One tweak would be needed: pay off in increments of 5,000 ISIS KIAs. Make the bounty hunters work together.
Tell me we couldn't get Turkey in there asap. Forget about Assad, kill 10,000 of them. Pocket $10 billion gross. And that's even better than bombing for the prime contractor. 5% on that gig pockets $500,000,000. That's for turkey on the Northern Front.
Same time the Kurds and Iran swarm ISIS from the east in Syria and Iraq. 20,000 KIAs on this Eastern Front grosses $20 billion.
Look to southwest Syria and the subcontractors go to Lebanese Army and Hizb Allah/Hezbollah. We already gave them the artillery and fresh ammo. Came in by ship through Beirut.
Another 20,000 KIA on the Western Front. Another $20 billion.
$50 billion to erase ISIS. Gotta love the budget implications. Maybe the U.S. could afford to fix a bridge or two next year.
We run this broader MMM Milo Minderbinder MakeABuck wipeout scheme and kill all of the ISIS psychos. That makes for a terrible bad day for the Permanent War crowd. The dearly beloved Carlyle Group investments... they tank.
Sheiks cry. Bushes cry. Adelman cries.
But hot damn! 5% of $50 billion for taking out 50,000 ISIS runs to $2.5 billion.
That there is Halliburton money, folks.
We could afford to hire Dick Cheney with that kind of money. Have him write pro-war editorials. Put 'em in the shredder.
More insanity below the fold....
Back in April Iran lost a general fighting in Syria. Major General Hadi Kajbaf, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), was killed at Busr al-Harir in southwest Syria.
Tasnim and Fars cover the return of his body to Iran for burial. Kajbaf was the second Persian general KIA in Syria. Rumor has two battalions of IRGC Kuds Force in Syria, fighting 24/7/365 against the ISIS main battle groups and recruiting/training Sunni Syrian Army professionals who had been forced out to the refugee camps. Two battalions is approximately 6,000 men.
In America the Pentagon propaganda blurbs talk repeatedly in terms of "leading the coalition" and of a fantasy debate on whether Iran should be included in this war.
Both of these PR memes are absurd, borderline crazy stuff. It's the kind of crap that goes out to justify spending $9,000,000 a day to carry out an ineffectual bombing campaign. Currently $3,285,000,000/year.
I don't want to argue that the 20 hits a day are useless. It's good stuff for infantry, seeing ISIS mortars taken out by U.S. drones. Same for wasting ISIS resupply convoys up eastern Syria and the multiple failures to get through to Mosul. Still, the U.S. Air Force is doing less work today busting up ISIS than back 2003 crunching Saddam's Iraq.
What gets done needs to be coordinated with local anti-ISIS forces. Not a little bit here and there. Steadily. With fire control centers down there on the ground with the couple dozen major anti-ISIS fighting units.
DK Air Force can do that. Of course DKAF subcontracts it. Halliburton ??? Whatever Blackwater/Xe/Academi is called these days? Rockwell Collins?
Buy three, keep one. It's cost-plus.
Dripping out 20 hits a day is less work over a month than what USAF did back in 2003 in a day. It's bloody lazy. That's what it is. There's 50,000 ISIS out there and only 20 targets a day? Really ???
Pentagon claims to be leading the fight against ISIS and here's all the boom-boom for May 2015. That's 100% of the hits. All of it.
Losing no planes has been kinda nice, don't you think?
Summary
Iran loses generals. Loses pilots doing low level close air support (CAS.) Such as during a pair of similar large-scale ISIS suicide chain attacks on Samarra a year ago. That sacrifice at Samarra helped critically to win the battle that marked the end of ISIS's march south down Route 1 toward Baghdad.
When the U.S. CENTCOM identified ISIS staging its attack on Ramadi on the morning of May 14th 2015, nothing was done. That attack looked a lot like what had happened at Ramadi. But for whatever reason, no drone hits followed. Sure as hell no CAS.
Not even a warning to the Iraqis at Ramadi or Baghdad.
Contracting out the work ??? Why not?