the supply lines is critical to that. do you think this sort of chokes isis at least here in ramadi and even in mosul or do those that leave ramadi go to mosul to defend it there. it certainly does. when many were saying there wasn t a strategy, this was part of it, cut the supply lines and the logistics, take out and destroy the leadership. give the population a chance to rise. at the same time, provide time for the iraqi security forces to build up. there are going to be a lot of other fights before mosul. they have to take a city called sherkot and another one on the way to mosul to establish the basis for resupply. i agree with what rick said. this is not going to take days or weeks but months before the