Posted on 12/01/2015 10:02:02 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee
Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Tuesday the U.S. military will deploy a specialized expeditionary targeting force to Iraq to launch unilateral raids and "put even more pressure" on ISIS.
In his opening statement, Carter says U.S. special operation forces would conduct operations in Iraq "at the invitation of the Iraqi government" and be in position "to conduct unilateral operations into Syria."
DOD officials tell NBC News that the U.S. will consult with the Iraqi government but that does not preclude unilateral operations in Iraq as well. One official also points out that when talking about coordination with Iraqi forces "that also includes the Kurds" so there may be some instances in which the U.S. conducts operations in Northern Iraq without consulting Iraqi leadership in advance.
The officials stress the operations would not include "large numbers of forces" but smaller special operations expeditionary units. Whatever the number one senior official said "This cracks open the door" for U.S. combat operations in Iraq and Syria.
According to senior defense officials interviewed by NBC News, the operations will follow the October special ops raid alongside Kurdish fighters in Northern Iraq that freed 70 prisoners being held by ISIS. . .
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Will they be wearing boots?
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Use of special ops is a modern way of avoiding a true fight. The are terrified of conventional attack, not the occasional raid.
Let’s just broadcast our intentions so the enemy will know what we are up to. GEESH!
IIRC, Iraq just told them to get lost...and very recently
Coals to Newcastle - Spetsnaz is already there.
As Trump has already stated, why are we broadcasting this information to the world, and to ISIS?
How stupid are these people?
I wonder what the rules of engagement will be?
[Will they be wearing boots?]
If this group is based in the Iraq/Syria Theater they will require at least one infantry battalion for security and another battalion with helicopters as a reaction/rescue force. These guys will all be wearing boots.
Another conduit to resupply ISIS? It puts the ‘Special’ in ‘Special Ops’! Why not our regular military? The Army or Marines are quite capable of exterminating ISIS, but that would be “boots on the ground” I suppose.
0dunga will make them wear shoes. That’s how he gets around the ‘boots’ problem.
Great.
We’re getting involved in their religious civil war.
I guess “we” are now supposed to care which team of Islam comes out on top.
Their way of saying no troops on the ground, when we all know there is already. the question is are they are to take down ISIS or train anti Assad forces?
Will Obama allow them to have live ammo?
Im shocked that he didnt post their proposed travel itinerary on facebook
Hoverboards. (They're a trendy thing this year.)
Let the Sunnis and Shiites duke it out. This is not our fight. You want to get rid of ISIS, turn the Iranians loose on them.
It is odd how our leaders continually fail to recognize that the Saudis and Sunni Arabs have been the major problem in creation of AQ and terrorism including 9-11. They are mostly what we call radical Muslims.
The Shiites have never been a significant problem to the USA either in Iraq or elsewhere. The Sunnis via Saudis have an inside track to our politicians that is not in our interests. Bush even classified the Saudis involvement in 9-11 that many in Congress want declassified. Why is anything about 9-11 still classified?
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