WASHINGTON — Recognizing the need for a new strategy to fight ISIS, the Pentagon announced today that it would no longer supply the Iraqi Army with American vehicles, artillery and rifles, and instead would supply materiel directly to ISIS.
CENTCOM spokesman Air Force Col. Patrick Ryder says the idea "would be a game changer."
The plan has its roots in Army Capt. Noel Abelove’s PowerPoint briefing, which was hailed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sources said. Abelove, a supply officer on the Joint Logistics Staff (J-4), realized that cutting out the Iraqi Army middlemen had numerous advantages.
“They taught me at West Point that 'amateurs talk strategy but professionals talk logistics,'” Abelove told reporters. “The most important advantage is, we only supply about 40 percent of each ISIS requisition.”
