Friday, February 23, 2018

The Islamic State Has Not Been Defeated



Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal: Analysis: ISIS hasn’t been defeated

On January 19, the Pentagon released its new National Defense Strategy. The second paragraph of the 14-page declassified summary painted a dire picture. “Today, we are emerging from a period of strategic atrophy, aware that our competitive military advantage has been eroding,” the Defense Department warned. “We are facing increased global disorder, characterized by decline in the long-standing rules-based international order—creating a security environment more complex and volatile than any we have experienced in recent memory. Inter-state strategic competition, not terrorism, is now the primary concern in U.S. national security.”

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4 comments:

jac said...

This war is an ideological one. As long as we count only of military success we shall lose. We have to be ideological too.

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fred said...

I am left/liberal...I knew this a long time ago...next?

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