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What went wrong in Ramadi? ISIS capitalized on a incoming stand storm to conceal their advance, which included the use of VBIEDs followed up by machine gun fire, one of their mainstay TTPs to kick off an assault. Using weather to mask troop movements is warfare 101 and should not have come as a surprise.
