Was Tipping Hand on Mosul Plan the Right Move?

Combatants do not usually tell opponents their attack plans. But that's what appears to have happened Thursday when a U.S. military official explained when and how an Iraqi and Kurdish military force would push to recapture Mosul from Islamic State fighters. “I really see this more as a combination of psychological warfare and wishful thinking,” said Michael Weiss, co-author of "ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror" and a columnist for Foreign Policy magazine. “But is it going to...

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