ON TO TIKRIT
The last redoubt of Baath support will soon fall: Tikrut battle expected within hours. (Via GoogleNews)
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James Joyner is Professor and Department Head of Security Studies at Marine Corps University's Command and Staff College and a nonresident senior fellow at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer and Desert Storm vet. Views expressed here are his own. Follow James on Twitter @DrJJoyner.ON TO TIKRIT
Saddam’s home town looks to be the last redoubt of serious resistance. My guess is it isn’t going to be all that serious.
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That’s the one location absolutely suitable for day/night carpet-bombing until there is NOTHING LEFT.
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