VOA: Pentagon Chief Spells Out Strategy for Taking Back IS 'Power Centers'
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Wednesday spelled out the U.S. strategy for retaking the Iraqi city of Mosul and Raqqa in Syria — cities he called Islamic State's two power centers.
Carter spoke to troops from the 101st Airborne Division in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, who will soon be deployed to Iraq to help train Iraqi and Kurdish forces in defeating the militants.
"ISIL [Islamic State] is a cancer that's threatening to spread," Carter told them. "And like all cancers, you can't cure the disease just by cutting out the tumor. You have to eliminate it wherever it has spread and stop it from coming back."
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WNU Editor: Nothing specific .... just a commitment to defeat the Islamic State in 2016, and to assist our allies on the ground to accomplish it.
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US defense chief says Isis strongholds will be targeted by coalition in 2016 -- The Guardian
Carter to Army's 101st: You will prepare Iraqis to retake Mosul -- Stars and Stripes
4 comments:
The US has been training Iraqi troops for ten years now. Petraeus became famous doing it. It doesn't work, which is probably why they're doing it.
A twice defeated nation having no will to fight and probably not sure who they should be fighting or bowing to cannot be "trained".
We trained the Iraqi army.
Malaki and his successor dismantled it.
That makes a difference.
Ah, the old "stabbed in the back" myth.
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