The Battle for Mosul Will Be Televised

[Bacon King]

specifically, al Jazeera is live-streaming it on facebook!

https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera/videos/vb.7382473689/10154763661373690/?type=3&theater

[Rocky Rockefeller]

This is the world we live in.

[Grand Wizard Lizard of the Klan]

Rudaw is also transmitting.

[Crumpets]

http://syriancivilwarmap.com/watch-live-mosul-operation/

Two more feeds, I think they'really different. Plus, as its name implies, this website has some pretty great and detailed maps.

[Crumpets]

One question though: Are these tape-delayed? Because it looks like the middle of the day there, even though I think it's about 10pm in Iraq right now.

[Silent Hunter]

Not sure; also, there must be some serious OPSEC restrictions on that...

[Antonio the Sixth]

What a world we live in.

[Blue3]

So was the Iraq invasion back in 2003, I still remember how CNN gave live coverage of the initial "Shock & Awe" bombing campaign.

[Cory]

Sweet.

Also r/combatfootage is a great place to see this all unfold.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I might tune in later.

[Green Line]

Wow, war should never be turned into entertainment. Sad.

[Zinneke]

Wow, war should never be turned into entertainment. Sad.

I imagine its morbid curiousity and ex-military experience that draws that kind of crowd.

[dead0man]

So was the Iraq invasion back in 2003, I still remember how CNN gave live coverage of the initial "Shock & Awe" bombing campaign.

I remember when we landed in Somalia in 92.  The press was on the beaches as Marines landed....very surreal.  link

(the USMC PR guy half way through trying to explain to the morons in the press why what they were doing was stupid and dangerous and them laughing about it is strange)

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Wow, war should never be turned into entertainment. Sad.

I imagine its morbid curiousity and ex-military experience that draws that kind of crowd.

I haven't actually tuned in yet, but is this actually going to be more than grainy black and white surveillance drone footage where all you see is a bunch of indistinguishable pickup trucks driving around?

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Well isn't it cool when Counter Strike gets the 'real thrill'?

There would be a 'potential audience' for it.

Regardless the big conventional means engaged, it would really be a 'counter strike' war like moreover, just like most wars nowadays.

Well, not sure if French media are just discrete, careless, or whatever anyhow.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Oh and about the battle itself, crazy how that city has been taken within two hours by shouting from minarets while taking it back shows as one of the biggest military battle of the last decade or more so far.

Counter strike might need 'religious' update.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

I hope the aftrrmath isn't as bloody as Fallujah. Unfortunately Shia militias never learn.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

I hope the battle itself isn't as bloody as Fallujah. Fortunately the US learn...