{"id":36422,"date":"2013-06-27T09:02:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T13:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36422"},"modified":"2013-06-27T09:02:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T13:02:13","slug":"training-teams-to-iraq-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36422","title":{"rendered":"Training teams to Iraq, Lebanon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/middle-east\/us-looks-to-send-training-teams-to-lebanon-iraq-1.227784\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Martin Dempsey told Central Command to prepare to send mobile training teams to support the military in Lebanon and Iraq as the Syrian revolution spills across that country&#8217;s borders;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Dempsey made the recommendation to U.S. Central Command in recent weeks, according to Air Force Col. Ed Thomas, a spokesman for the Army general. There have been no U.S. military trainers in Iraq since troops left at the end of 2011, as the war there ended. But the U.S. has provided military training and assistance to Lebanon for a number of years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Militarily, what we&#8217;re doing is assisting our partners in the region, the neighbors of Syria, to ensure that they&#8217;re prepared to account for the potential spillover effects,&#8221; Dempsey said during a Pentagon briefing Wednesday. &#8220;As you know, we&#8217;ve just taken a decision to leave some Patriot missile batteries and some F-16s in Jordan as part of the defense of Jordan. We&#8217;re working with our Iraqi counterparts, the Lebanese Armed Forces and Turkey through NATO.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, part of the package will be arms sales. This, along with Patriot batteries and fighter wings in Jordan and arms to Syrian rebels. I think I called Syria a tar baby already, didn&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Stars &#038; Stripes, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Martin Dempsey told Central Command &hellip; <a title=\"Training teams to Iraq, Lebanon?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36422\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Training teams to Iraq, Lebanon?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}