option 3, replace the troops with roving bands of seals, green beret's, pathfinders, ak Britian and any other covert special forces team that you can find. Give them an unlimited hunting license and give them no geographic limits. If Insurgents are going into Iran or Syria follow them in. Ask Britain to supply SAS troops and Canada to covertly supply JTF-2 members. Ask the Russians for a battalion of Spetznaz to go mountain hunting.
Set the CIA loose to find out where the funding and weapons are coming from. Start eliminating those targets as well.
No more airstrikes, or missile strikes.
Post huge bounties for the heads of known insurgency leaders. encourage mercenaries to hunt them down.
Don't make public any successes, just dissapear them.
Leak information that will make the different terrorists cells distrust each other, try to encourage a civil war between them.
As many snipers as you can find, give them the tag to go after suspected leaders.
Leave a nominal number of troops as advisors to the Iraqi military pump up the recruitment efforts.
Its becoming apparent that the Insurgents aren't going to fight a conventional war, so its time to start playing as dirty as they are.
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