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Dhim Wit
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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
(a) They may not know, though it is possible to gauge what your enemy is doing. If the insurgents have been getting better training, we may not want to acknowledge it yet for political/diplomatic reasons. That's a bit less likely now that we're going after Iran in the press.
[For a long time, we wouldn't admit shootdowns, and still won't announce sniper kills as such, to try not to let the enemy know they've succeeded.]
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I mistook your parenthetical as an endorsement of the Pentagon's statement. It seems most likely to me that some of the insurgents have recently focused on taking out our helicopters, and have come up with a new way to do it.
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