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General Category => Military/Defense News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on April 15, 2017, 11:09:51 am
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Report: McMaster pushing for “tens of thousands” of U.S. ground troops for Syria and Iraq to finish off ISIS?
posted at 8:41 pm on April 13, 2017 by Allahpundit
Fortunately, all of the other major military players involved seem to think this is a bad idea.
Senior White House and administration officials tell me Trump’s national security adviser, General H.R. McMaster, has been quietly pressing his colleagues to question the underlying assumptions of a draft war plan against the Islamic State that would maintain only a light U.S. ground troop presence in Syria. McMaster’s critics inside the administration say he wants to send tens of thousands of ground troops to the Euphrates River Valley. His supporters insist he is only trying to facilitate a better interagency process to develop Trump’s new strategy to defeat the self-described caliphate that controls territory in Iraq and Syria…
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/04/13/report-mcmaster-pushing-tens-thousands-u-s-ground-troops-syria-iraq-finish-off-isis/