Talk:Joint Special Operations Command Task Force in the Iraq War

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i think Task Force 145 should be merged with this article becuase task force 145 actually is task force 88 it was just a name change —Preceding unsigned comment added by N512ma (talk • contribs) 01:58, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Don't be so certain about that.Don Brunett (talk) 00:13, 15 January 2015 (UTC)Don Brunett[reply]

Anglo-American Not American[edit]

The totality of the TF's were loosely created after 9/11 as a joint Anglo-American (Great Britain/USA) operation with tier one (SFOD-D and SAS/SBS) and tier two operators with QRF's from both the US and British Armies (US Cavalry and British Paratroopers), under Stanley McCrystal at the JSOC (Baghdad) the Anglo-American teams consolidated even further and eventually became the TF teams listed in the article. The SAS/SBS TF was eventually renamed from task Force Black to Task Force Knight. Twobells (talk) 19:51, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. I removed the references to lexisnexis.com since the link is broken and doesnt seem to be true since the British were thoroughly involved in the Second Battle of Fallujah. Bunnyman78 (talk) 14:36, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Reason for name change[edit]

I changed it from Task Force 88 to Joint Special Operations Command Task Force in the Iraq War for many reasons: I'm well researched in special forces activity since 9/11 so I felt if anyone was going to do this it would be me and as of 2017 there has been more information available to reason a name change. It was a while ago when the reasons were more clear at the time.

1. As explained on the page, there are various Task Forces' that were part of the JSOC Task Force in Iraq and much of those individual Task Force pages are scattered throughout Wikipedia, this page can be used as hub collect these pages and give the reader a clear understanding of the etymology of the Task Force designations.

2.There was a mass of information for other Task Force units on the former Task Force 88s page rather than on the correct Task Force pages (section on TF 145 on TF 88s page for example), rather than go through the laborious process of finding/creating new pages/articles I figured it was better to leave it all on one page and reorganise the page to make it correct and easier for the reader.

3.There isn't a lot of information on individual Task Force operations (particularly TF 88) and many of the articles could face deletion and thus information on those articles lost, for now it seems better to have all the information in one place.

4.With my decision to reorganise the page meant that TF 88 could no longer be the correct title, when more information on TF 88 becomes available then the page should be created, as for other TF pages. The closet title I could find was Joint Special Operations Command Task Force in the Iraq War with at least two references on it included in my initial explanation.

Hope that clears things up.

LtSpecter (talk) 21:21, 15 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Who wrote this pish..? 86.7.200.132 (talk) 00:21, 30 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]