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Pentagon’s “Devastating impact” plan for ISIS

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The U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis had presented a preliminary version of the Pentagon’s new plan to rapidly defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria during a meeting of the White House Principals Committee, a Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt. Jeff Davis said оn February, 28. The plan involves making a “devastating impact” on the terrorist group.

According to Davis, the document calls on all the branches of the U.S. government, diplomatic, financial and intelligence elements of national power as well as cyber-security agencies to unite and intensify joint actions. The plan is trans-regional and is aimed at defeating such terror groups as Al-Qaeda and ISIS around the globe. It also proposes to increase the U.S. military contingent in Syria and to cut off terrorists’ funding.

Trump pledged to defeat ISIS during the campaign and also has repeated it since becoming president.

Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) convention last Friday, Trump told attendees: “As part of my pledge to restore safety for the American people, I have…directed the defense community to develop a plan to totally obliterate ISIS. Working with our allies, we will eradicate this evil from the face of the Earth.”

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The plan is trans-regional and is aimed at defeating such terror groups as Al-Qaeda and ISIS around the globe. It also proposes to increase the U.S. military contingent in Syria and to cut off terrorists’ funding.

Where the plan against ISIS went wrong?

First of all, some Western experts say the increase of the U.S. troops in Syria will not contribute to the establishment of security and stability in the country.

On the contrary, it will lead to further escalation of tensions and deterioration of the security situation. The experience of Afghanistan and Iraq suggests us that it is not a good idea.

About five hundred American soldiers including U.S. SOF have already been deployed to Syria. Analysts believe that with the implementation of the proposed plan this number may rise up to five thousand.

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This may also result in loss in personnel and material, to say nothing of possible refusal from participating in the peace negotiations. We speak here about several opposition groups set against the United States, such as Ahrar al-Sharqiya.

Second, there are doubts about the effectiveness of Barack Obama administration’s counter-terrorism efforts. The U.S. House Homeland Security Committee reported more than once on the sources and possible methods to counter the growing income of the terrorists.

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I welcome it. Although i hope the aftermaths of any actions by the West will not end up like the post-Saddam Iraq situation (Western actions resulting in a comfy breeding ground for a new generation of terrorists). 54 billion USD is a lot of money, and frankly i don't really care about how much it's going to cost in the first few years. What i want to see is the need for high defense spending to drop as regional players take over responsibility for keeping their own territories free from terror-training-camp and terror-madrassahs.
The Iraqis are doing a lot better these days, as are the Afghans and Pakistanis. But terrorists dont really care where they rule, so long as they have enough space anywhere to rule and then train new generations of terrorists.
So this is not a regional issue. It's a multi-regional issue to the very end.
Crucial will be the continued monitoring by the West to aid and assist local moderate leaderships. Eventually we should see a hefty 'training of local police and militaries' fee on that increased defense spending by the West.
And of course we need to be extremely vigilant towards wolves in sheepskin; local leaders at any level who preach moderate beliefs but secretly support a local 'extremist backup army / poor man's nuke'.

I'll keep a fairly detailed eye on how things develop from here on. There's a real chance we can end the war on terror, if we learn from our mistakes and dont resort to spending money blindly. Regions like Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, even Pakistan, and plenty of new terror breeding grounds in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, need friendly but also firm guidance / tutoring by the West.

Finally, what i think works a lot better than public naming and shaming of say an Iraqi midlevel or highlevel military official, is to quietly threaten to sideline/dismiss such people from their jobs. Because I've seen more than a few military and political (highlevel and midlevel) officials in Afghanistan be in that job to be able to ship money to Swiss bank accounts via diplomatic (unchecked) airmail.
You name-and-shame such an official, you only give them a much bigger platform to lie on.
You fire (dishonorably discharge) them (and occasionally you have to admit that the evidence against them is not crystal clear, meaning a reasonable suspicision should be enough to remove them from command), they dont have a platform to lie on at all.

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