The general in charge of U.S. special operations forces in Iraq for the past six months says Washington’s information campaign in the Middle East is so inadequate that many Iraqi troops believe American forces are secretly supplying the Islamic State — potentially leaving U.S. forces vulnerable to reprisal attacks from their nominal allies in the fight against the militants.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/05/20...ampaign=buffer

nb: Temporary separate thread for maximum visibility before integration with the appropriate "we're getting clobbered in the Information Operations arena".