Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Robert F. Hale, the Defense Department's comptroller, testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington, D.C., April 17, 2013. DOD photo by U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Aaron Hostutler
U.S. Takes Step Toward Possible Military Intervention In Syria -- L.A. Times
The Pentagon is sending about 200 troops to Jordan to help deliver aid to refugees and to plan for possible military action, including a rapid buildup of forces.
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is sending about 200 troops to Jordan, the vanguard of a potential U.S. military force of 20,000 or more that could be deployed if the Obama administration decides to intervene in Syria to secure chemical weapons arsenals or to prevent the 2-year-old civil war from spilling into neighboring nations.
Troops from the 1st Armored Division will establish a small headquarters near Jordan's border with Syria to help deliver humanitarian supplies for a growing flood of refugees and to plan for possible military operations, including a rapid buildup of American forces if the White House decides intervention is necessary, senior U.S. officials said.
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My Comment: I do not see a U.S. military intervention happening in Syria. The logistics, manpower, resources .... the U.S. does not have the political or public will to assemble such a force and to use it by intervening into Syria. The only way that the situation may change is if extremists take over Syria .... and start to not only deploy WMDs .... but to use them. In such a crisis anything is possible .... and this is what these 200 U.S. military planners will be primarily doing. Laying the groundwork in case the worst case scenario becomes reality.
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