Mattis Told Generals To Abandon Obama Anti-ISIS Strategy, Start ‘Annihilating The Enemy’
Saagar Enjeti
Reporter
2:34 PM 06/16/2017
Secretary of Defense James Mattis instructed the U.S. military to abandon Obama administration procedures and start focusing on killing Islamic State fighters instead, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford told Breaking Defense.
“When Secretary Mattis looked at our anti-ISIS campaign, he concluded that in some instances we were essentially just pushing the enemy from one location to another,” Dunford explained. “He asked me and the military chain-of-command to make a conscious effort not to allow ISIS fighters to just flee from one location to another, but rather to deliberately seek to ‘annihilate’ the enemy,” he continued.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/16/mattis-told-generals-to-abandon-obama-anti-isis-strategy-start-annihilating-the-enemy/
