Posted on 08/07/2019 11:08:37 AM PDT by robowombat
“U.S. plans to keep just a residual force in Syria to ensure the enduring defeat of the Islamic State may be on the verge of backfiring, with some military officials warning the strategy is giving the terror group new life.”
B.S.
The USA going from 2,000 personnel to 1,000 is not changing anything. After active combat operations, we sent the artillery and attack aircraft units home. They play no role in the current counter-insurgency.
What matters is how much we train and equip the Kurds who now control and police that area. They are among the best in maintaining internal security, but need to be resourced according to the scale of the task. Unfortunately, the scale of their training and assistance has been limited by pressure from Turkey (who has long covertly supported ISIS).
Since ISIS saw that the US was going to press to liberate all the territory they held, they began preparing in earnest to go back underground as a terrorist/insurgent organization. They literally prepared for years, for this stage of the conflict.
The Sunni tribes along the Euphrates River Valley are rife with grievances against their Governments, and heavy with Islamist indoctrination and anti-Shi’ite prejudice.
There will be a long term need to track down underground ISIS cells, but friendly local forces, who speak the language and are embedded in the culture and communities are best suited for that. Big deployments of American farmboys to sit in bases outside of town, are a hugely expensive and ineffective tool for the job.
From recent experience with Huber and Horowitz, I’d vote for useless d!ckhead.
The Swamp was never close to being drained. I would have fired EVERYONE day one and said,”Try and stop me”. If some a-hole judge tried to injunction I would just make “unfireable” swamp scum lives absolutely miserable so they would only have one option and resign/quit.
The Pentagon thinks it SETS national policy, not just follows it. Same for the DOJ and FBI. Same for the CIA and State.
Trump essentially controls maybe 40% of the executive branch and that’s about it.
wow, their IG works a lot faster than the DOJ’s IG
Where is the IG report slamming Obama for causing the Syrian Civil War by supporting the Muslim Brotherhood during the Muslim Spring. Obama is responsible for Syria, Libya, Egypt, and a dozen other places going Muslim or fending off going Muslim at tremendous human cost.
Syria is part of Obama’s legacy but no IG report has slammed him for it.
No way, their own website states their mission and criticizing presidential policy decisions seems very, very far afield from any reasonable reading of it. This appears completely unprecedented which implies to me that it is insubordinate. The DOD IG should examine how the DOD operates in executing its assigned tasks, not the decisions made above and outside the DOD about what those tasks are.
DODIG.mil
- Conduct, supervise, monitor, and initiate audits, evaluations, and investigations relating to programs and operations of the Department of Defense.
- Provide leadership and coordination and recommend policies for activities designed to promote economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in the administration of, and to prevent and detect fraud and abuse in, such programs and operations.
- Provide a means for keeping the Secretary of Defense and the Congress fully and currently informed about problems and deficiencies relating to the administration of such programs and operations and the necessity for and progress of corrective action.
There might be one for the personnel in the DOD IG Office.
Across the Services, there is no common job description.
Across the various government agencies, there is no common job description.
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