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The top-ranking officer in the American military said on Thursday that the US is actively considering the use of American troops directly in the toughest upcoming fights against the Islamic State (Isis) in Iraq, less than a week after Barack Obama doubled troop levels there.
General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, indicated to the House of Representatives armed services committee that the strength of Isis relative to the Iraqi army may be such that he would recommend abandoning Obama’s oft-repeated pledge against returning US ground troops to combat in Iraq.
Retaking the critical city of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest, and re-establishing the border between Iraq and Syria that Isis has erased “will be fairly complex terrain” for the Iraqi security forces that the US is once again supporting.
“I’m not predicting at this point that I would recommend that those forces in Mosul and along the border would need to be accompanied by US forces, but we’re certainly considering it,” Dempsey said.
originally posted by: daaskapital
The top-ranking officer in the American military said on Thursday that the US is actively considering the use of American troops directly in the toughest upcoming fights against the Islamic State (Isis) in Iraq, less than a week after Barack Obama doubled troop levels there.
General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, indicated to the House of Representatives armed services committee that the strength of Isis relative to the Iraqi army may be such that he would recommend abandoning Obama’s oft-repeated pledge against returning US ground troops to combat in Iraq.
US military considers sending combat troops back to Iraq
Retaking the critical city of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest, and re-establishing the border between Iraq and Syria that Isis has erased “will be fairly complex terrain” for the Iraqi security forces that the US is once again supporting.
“I’m not predicting at this point that I would recommend that those forces in Mosul and along the border would need to be accompanied by US forces, but we’re certainly considering it,” Dempsey said.
Well, this is unsurprising.
The US military is considering the prospects of deploying combat troops to aid Iraqi and Kurdish forces against ISIS in key areas such as Mosul, al-Anbar province and Ninewa province. I wonder what Obama's and Congress' opinions will be on the announcements. Surely any such deployment would be met with difficulties.
With that said, i think the deployment of troops would greatly aid in the fight against ISIS, and may even be necessary to halt the slow advancement of the terrorist organisation. Dempsey says that if troops were to be deployed, the numbers would be no where near those during the last war.
Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama has asked his national security team for another review of the U.S. policy toward Syria after realizing that ISIS may not be defeated without a political transition in Syria and the removal of President Bashar al-Assad, senior U.S. officials and diplomats tell CNN.
The review is a tacit admission that the initial strategy of trying to confront ISIS first in Iraq and then take the group's fighters on in Syria, without also focusing on the removal of al-Assad, was a miscalculation.
originally posted by: daaskapital
Well, this is unsurprising.
The US military is considering the prospects of deploying combat troops to aid Iraqi and Kurdish forces against ISIS in key areas such as Mosul, al-Anbar province and Ninewa province. I wonder what Obama's and Congress' opinions will be on the announcements. Surely any such deployment would be met with difficulties.
With that said, i think the deployment of troops would greatly aid in the fight against ISIS, and may even be necessary to halt the slow advancement of the terrorist organisation.
Dempsey says that if troops were to be deployed, the numbers would be no where near those during the last war.
originally posted by: daaskapital
The top-ranking officer in the American military said on Thursday that the US is actively considering the use of American troops directly in the toughest upcoming fights against the Islamic State (Isis) in Iraq, less than a week after Barack Obama doubled troop levels there.
General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, indicated to the House of Representatives armed services committee that the strength of Isis relative to the Iraqi army may be such that he would recommend abandoning Obama’s oft-repeated pledge against returning US ground troops to combat in Iraq.
US military considers sending combat troops back to Iraq
Retaking the critical city of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest, and re-establishing the border between Iraq and Syria that Isis has erased “will be fairly complex terrain” for the Iraqi security forces that the US is once again supporting.
“I’m not predicting at this point that I would recommend that those forces in Mosul and along the border would need to be accompanied by US forces, but we’re certainly considering it,” Dempsey said.
Well, this is unsurprising.
The US military is considering the prospects of deploying combat troops to aid Iraqi and Kurdish forces against ISIS in key areas such as Mosul, al-Anbar province and Ninewa province. I wonder what Obama's and Congress' opinions will be on the announcements. Surely any such deployment would be met with difficulties.
With that said, i think the deployment of troops would greatly aid in the fight against ISIS, and may even be necessary to halt the slow advancement of the terrorist organisation. Dempsey says that if troops were to be deployed, the numbers would be no where near those during the last war.
originally posted by: olaru12
America is in the business of exporting war. THEY don't call it the military/INDUSTRIAL complex for nothing. The Bush neoconservative's are still in complete control! Obama is their lapdog ,, the GOP. should be pleased; I really don't understand their hatred of him; he is only doing what his corporate masters tell him to do.
Now with the gop back in complete control again; business is bound to pick up even more! Check out the board of directors at Halliburton and tell me I'm wrong.