Posted on 03/01/2017 3:21:27 AM PST by Candor7
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2017 — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will present a preliminary version of the Pentagon’s new plan to rapidly defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria during a meeting of the White House Principals Committee today, Navy Capt. Jeff Davis said here this morning.
The Cabinet-level senior interagency forum, which usually does not include the president, already has received copies of the classified report, which Davis described as a framework for a broader global plan. President Donald J. Trump requested the plan in a Jan. 28 presidential memorandum.
“This is not just a military plan,” he told reporters during a briefing. “It draws upon all elements of national power -- diplomatic, financial, cyber, intelligence [and] public diplomacy, and it's been drafted in close coordination with our interagency partners.”
Davis added, “This plan is truly transregional. This is not just about Iraq and Syria, it is about defeating ISIS around the globe,” and other transregional violent extremist organizations, such as al-Qaida.
“From the secretary's standpoint,” Davis said, “he is very committed to rebuilding readiness and is looking for us to find ways to do that quickly and in ways that reflect our being good stewards of taxpayer dollars.”
2017 Budget Amendment
Davis also said the Pentagon is working with the Office of Management and Budget to finalize Defense Department budget amendment numbers.
“We are not able at this point to confirm specific numbers, the captain said, “but stay tuned to what OMB has to say. Once we've settled on the numbers we are postured to provide OMB with our budget amendment material as soon as possible in order to meet their goal of March 1.”
As Mattis has emphasized, he added, the budget amendment will focus on meeting warfighter needs and addressing critical readiness shortfalls.
“The highest priority for the fiscal year 2017 budget amendment is on programs and efforts that can be executed in the remainder of [fiscal year 2017] ending on Sept. 30,” Davis said. “Items that cannot be reasonably expected to be executed in this fiscal year will be recommended to be deferred [for placement] in the FY 2018 base budget.”
Exercise Flintlock 2017
Also during the briefing, Davis said that beginning today about 2,000 service members from 24 African, European and North American partner nations will participate in Flintlock 2017 -- U.S. Africa Command's premier special operations forces exercise. It takes place in seven nations throughout North and West Africa.
“This year,” Davis said, “Flintlock is being hosted by Burkina Faso, Chad, Cameroon, Niger, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia.”
The exercise bolsters partnerships among African, European and North American special operations forces, increasing their ability to work together in times of crises, Davis added.
According to Africom, participating nations include Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Chad, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Mattis likely will annahilate the Islamofascist scourges of Africa. (Its unsusal to have this mention of Operation Flintlock in a budget article, a signal.)
Mattis undoing the incredible damage Obama perpetrated in Africa.
No mention yet of rebuilding Libya.
1. Locate ISIS.
2. Destroy same.
Let’s see if any leaks come out...
I pray that our military does not have to suffer under the ridiculous rules of engagement that Obama hobbled them with.
The rules of engagement should be similar to those used in WW2 and wars before.
Once this plan is implemented it will be swift.
Rules of engagement : Find them, kill them.
ROE’s have already been changing. The difference is that nobody is beating their chest over it, just beating our enemies. Case in point, Al-Baghdadi acknowledged defeat in Iraq today in a statement instructing his followers to either escape to fight again or to be suicide bombers.
HOORAY SecDef Mattis.
WOOOOHOOOOO President Trump
1. Create ISIS
2. Arm ISIS.
3. Destroy same.
4. Retire to Silver Star Lane.
1. Create ISIS
2. Arm ISIS.
3. Destroy same.
4. Retire to Silver Star Lane.
The plan will need to ensure that ISIS fighters don’t just metastasize to Europe and elsewhere, to cause terror attacks later. That’s what local Iraqi troops apparently have been willing to do — allow the ISIS fighters to leave and abandon the territory, in exchange for not having to actually fight them.
The plan will need to ensure that none of them get out alive.
How to undo ISIS/Islam:
[From Muslim to a Strong Kingdom General: (Testimony) Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo (Must Watch)]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwv7w2JZPWE
Let Europe do it. I bet a large number of the African refugees are foreign workers from Libya running away from the fanatics that took over what remains of that country, after NATO bombed its infrastructure and the Great Man Made River into rubble. The 'rebels' supported by Obama who used NATO like his toy, killed countless foreign workers. The NATO members in Europe are getting their just deserts imo.
Background on the Libyan Crisis for Migrant Workers Libya is home to over one million foreign workers employed in the various sectors of its economy, including the oil, construction, agriculture, and services industries. Foreign workers come from Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. They range from management to unskilled and undocumented day laborers. Following the outbreak of protests in mid-February 2011, many companies and factories reportedly came under assault and were looted by criminal gangs and other armed elements. After unconfirmed reports emerged that Gaddafi had brought in sub-Saharan African mercenaries to attack anti-government protesters, African migrant workers in particular became the target of violent attacks.
So the ethnic cleansing of Blacks in Libya continues. NATO-Backed Libya "Rebels" are clearly terrorists and racist... the mainstream media is already engaging in widespread damage control in an attempt to mitigate the fallout of the reality of the situation in Libya and the withering NATO-sponsored narrative of post-Gaddafi Libya.They are called "Africans and Black Libyans", "Sub-Saharan mercenaries".
Amnesty International Ignores Atrocities Against Black People in Libya
The EU will have no soul until they rebuild Libya. It is the most singularly nefarious act that Europe has perpetrated on the world since the Nazis totalitarian takeover of Europe.
Liberal Fascists in control of NATO committed a fascist act right in front of the whole world and NOBODY even saw it.
We’ll keep yelling about it.
Thanks for the reference on the social conditions inside Libya. Obama was still bombing Libya in his last week in office. I wonder what Mattis will say about Libya next week when the comprehensive security plan is unveiled. Will Rex Tillerson have mercy of Libya?
Important questions. How far must we go in repairing the destruction Obama has wrought?
That question assumes he's stopped. And don't expect Europe/NATO to ever admit its fault. Btw, just where did Libya's gold reserves end up?
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