I wrote yesterday about the idea/plan for a Spring offensive by the Iraqi forces and its Coalition partners against ISIS….the plan being to retake Mosul from the clutches of ISIS.

The problem is that the US telegraphed this plan without really consulting it s allies……Iraq was pushing back saying that it was a premature announcement and that Iraqi forces could not be ready in that short of time…..

There was much back and forth about this announced plan……and in the end….guess what will happen?

After weeks of hyping their planned “spring offensive” against ISIS in Iraq, capped off with the capture of the major city of Mosul, the Pentagon is now said to have taken the plan entirely off the table on the grounds that Iraqi troops probably wouldn’t win.

“We don’t want to do anything until they are ready and can win decisively,” one Pentagon official explained, “they cannot now.” Apparently, Centcom announced the intention to carry out this attack before considering if it was winnable.

Pentagon officials are now saying that the invasion is being pushed back until at least autumn, though even that is tentative, and likely based on extremely optimistic timetables for getting the Iraqi military back into fighting form.

You would think that the US would coordinate with its coalition partners before a chest thumping announcement was made….