{"id":55773,"date":"2014-10-13T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55773"},"modified":"2014-10-12T15:17:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T19:17:31","slug":"dempsey-us-advisors-are-likely-to-take-a-more-direct-role-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55773","title":{"rendered":"Dempsey: US advisors are likely to take a more direct role in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=28097\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28097\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/last-convoy-out-of-Iraq.jpg\" alt=\"last convoy out of Iraq\" width=\"294\" height=\"112\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28097\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, we talked about some senior commanders who have been telling the President that we should have more troops on the ground in Iraq. Apparently, one of those senior commanders is General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He told <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/iraq-ground-role-likely-us-military-advisors-dempsey-160412074.html\">a Sunday show<\/a> yesterday that airstrikes alone aren&#8217;t getting the job done;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;he said that when Iraqi forces are ready to take the offensive against the Islamic State jihadists who have overrun swaths of territory in northern and western Iraq, as well as in Syria, that would likely change.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mosul will likely be the decisive battle in the ground campaign at some point in the future,&#8221; Dempsey said in an interview with ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week,&#8221; referring to the northern Iraqi city seized by IS militants in June.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My instinct at this point is that will require a different kind of advising and assisting because of the complexity of that fight,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny how since the president told us that he wasn&#8217;t going to allow combat troops to put their boots on the ground, this administration has been acclimatizing the public to that eventuality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we talked about some senior commanders who have been telling the President that we should &hellip; <a title=\"Dempsey: US advisors are likely to take a more direct role in Iraq\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55773\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dempsey: US advisors are likely to take a more direct role in Iraq<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55773","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=55773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}