As Sources Claim the Islamic State is Winning, Obama Goes Guerilla?
SOURCE: US_keeps_wraps_on_new_commando_force_for_Iraq/
The commando force that President Barack Obama is dispatching to Iraq to conduct clandestine raids against the Islamic State group does not fit neatly into a picture of the U.S. military strategy for defeating the extremist army.
Even the name — “specialized expeditionary targeting force” — is a bit of a riddle. The main point is that the force is intended to ratchet up pressure on the Islamic State by using a small group of special operations troops — possibly fewer than 100 — to more aggressively use intelligence information, to include capturing and killing the group’s leaders. In theory, this would generate even more and better intelligence, feeding what the military calls a “virtuous cycle” of intelligence-driven air and ground operations.
It will be combat, but on a relatively small scale. Obama remains opposed to major U.S. ground combat in Iraq or Syria. Several weeks ago the administration said it would send up to 50 special operations troops to Syria as trainers and advisers.
The Pentagon has been spare in its description of this new commando force in Iraq. It has not even said when it will deploy. Offered a chance by the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday to expand on the Pentagon’s cryptic outline of the force’s makeup and mission, Defense Secretary Ash Carter demurred. In fact he said less about it than when he announced the move a week ago. He said then that the force would be positioned to gather intelligence, conduct raids and free hostages in Iraq while partnered with Iraqi forces. He also said it conduct unilateral hit-and-run raids into Syria.
But Carter told the committee that he preferred to keep details under wraps. “This is a no-kidding force that will be doing important things,” he said, adding that describing it too fully would jeopardize its security.
This kind of military force typically works in the shadows; the very fact of its existence normally would be classified secret. In this case the Pentagon lifted that veil to bolster its argument that the U.S. military strategy is building momentum at a time when its critics claim the Islamic State is winning.
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