Trump’s war of annihilation strategy against Islamic State frees military to quickly seize territory

[mystery-ak]

 By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times - Sunday, July 2, 2017

President Trump’s war of annihilation against the Islamic State played out this spring in the Syrian town of Tabqa, a critical prize in the ongoing final march to Raqqa.

Defense Secretary James Mattis announced the annihilation strategy in mid-May, but before that commanders in Iraq and Syria got the go-ahead to fight ISIS, as the Pentagon calls the terrorist army, Trump-style.

Under President Obama, U.S. Army Special Forces assigned to Syrian Democratic Forces needed special approval from Washington for virtually all tactical moves amid the politically complex theater of Americans, Arabs, Kurds, Turks and Syrians.

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[skeeter]

Trump allowing more latitude for the military in the theater. Appears to be paying off.

I think this one goes in the plus column.

Not for those who choose to read only stories about stupid tweets, however.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Good news.  The CIC is letting the military kill them. 

[DB]

Sounds good.

If you are going to authorize the military to solve a problem, let it do its job with clearly defined objectives. Otherwise don't do it.

[rangerrebew]

It's almost frightening, I'll take that back - is frightening - to think of Imam Obama, who hated the military, was making command decisions on a subject for which he didn't even know how to pronounce corpsman.  At least Trump is smart enough to leave the military do what the military trains to do.

[Suppressed]

Gotta give him big kudos for this!