After being announced last December,
The surge of forces into Iraq is over. The surge of operations has begun, the commander of Multinational Corps Iraq told Pentagon reporters in a teleconference today.
That would be yesterday, Friday 22 June. And, in the glorious tradition of Operation Together Forward, Operation Together Forward 2, Operation Imposing Law (never properly translated by the Pentagon from Fardh al-Qanoon), it's now called Operation Phantom Thunder.
So that noise from the sky doesn't actually mean anything?
UPDATE 5 SEPTEMBER: It's apparent with hindsight that the purpose of Operation Phantom Thunder was to provide a new start date for the Surge, thus allowing the argument that it hadn't yet enough time to be show results (of which there are none).
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