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Pentagon delivers draft plan to defeat Islamic State to White House
CNBC (source Reuters) ^ | 2-27-17 | none stated

Posted on 02/27/2017 3:27:46 PM PST by Texas Fossil

A Pentagon-led preliminary plan to defeat Islamic State has been delivered to the White House and U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will brief senior administration officials later on Monday, a Defense Department spokesman told reporters.

Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis told reporters that it was the framework for a broader plan and looked at Islamic State around the world, not just Iraq and Syria.

Davis said the plan would define what defeating Islamic State meant and was one that would rapidly defeat the militant group.

He added that Mattis would discuss the plan, which is primarily a written one with accompanying graphics, with members of the cabinet-level Principals Committee on Monday afternoon.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: isis; mattis; pentagon; plan
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To: Psalm 144

internal or external parasites?


41 posted on 02/28/2017 2:10:43 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

Both. But the foreign grifters are the easiest to brush off. We nothing to any of them.


42 posted on 02/28/2017 10:52:05 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Ace McCain, the Songbird. Nearly sank an aircraft carrier all alone, now tender midwife to ISIS.)
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