Hekaya Za Marekani: 10,000 IS militants dead in 9 months

hile taking my daily stroll around the internet, I came across a BBC article in which the US claims to have killed 10,000 islamic state militants. At first I thought the BBC was just engaging in clickbaiting, where you're tempted with a juicy headline, only for the actual article to helpfully inform you that "what we meant to say is that the US is capable of killing 10,000 IS militants in 9 months." But alas, it turned out that this was an actual statement from the US army.
As you'd expect, Kyuktothecore got very skeptical. And by "very skeptical", I mean verrry verrry skeptical. I was like:
Really America?



10,000?


Really?
 
I mean I ain't no military expert, far be it from me to question anything the mighty US army says. But...judging by how ISIS has been behaving, does it sound to you like an organisation that has lost 10000 members in 9 months? Wouldn't these guys be too busy burying their dead to even think of fighting? Wouldn't they be desperately looking for more land for cemeteries? Or did muslims start cremating their dead?
Any army that lost 10000 members in 9 months would at least be suffering some seriously low morale, don't you think? So why is the IS on such a roll? I'm so confused right now.
When the US announced that it was starting airstrikes against ISIS last year, the world expected it to be a straightforward affair, only for the US army to announce that it was actually targeting Khorasan, a terrorist group that absolutely no one had heard of up to that point. In the coming week, I'll post a thread detailing how western powers actually need terrorism to thrive in order for them to maintain their power. In short, friends, the "war on terror" will never end.