{"id":57430,"date":"2015-01-02T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57430"},"modified":"2015-01-01T14:39:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T19:39:54","slug":"us-advisers-in-iraq-dodging-the-war-is-getting-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57430","title":{"rendered":"US advisers in Iraq; dodging the war is getting harder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/us-advisers-in-iraq-stay-out-of-combat-but-see-fight-edge-nearer\/2015\/01\/01\/6da57c3a-9038-11e4-ba53-a477d66580ed_story.html?hpid=z1\">Washington Post<\/a> reports that some US advisers are experiencing the war in Iraq against ISIS in the Anbar Province a little more often than they&#8217;d like.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The militants, positioned at a nearby town, have repeatedly hit the base with artillery or rocket fire in recent weeks. Since the middle of December, the U.S.-led military coalition has launched 13 airstrikes around the facility.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. troops have suffered no casualties as a result of the attacks. But the violence has underlined the risks to American personnel as they fan out across Iraq as part of President Obama\u2019s expanding mission against the Islamic State, even as he has pledged U.S. operations will not \u201cinvolve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The war always seems to find US troops in spite of the administrations&#8217; claims that they won&#8217;t be involved in combat. I remember US Navy Commander <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1983\/05\/26\/world\/deputy-chief-of-us-military-unit-is-shot-and-killed-in-san-salvador.html\">Albert A. Schaufelberger<\/a>, a SEAL who was advising Salvadoran troops in that country in 1983 as the deputy chief of US forces, during a different presidential administration. The media made it well-known that American troops there wouldn&#8217;t have long arms and wouldn&#8217;t be involved in combat. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> According to Donald Hamilton, public affairs officer of the United States Embassy, Commander Schaufelberger was shot at about 6:30 P.M. when he went to the university to pick up a friend. According to the embassy official, a car pulled up alongside him and fired four shots.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Hamilton said details of the incident were very preliminary. In addition to his duties as deputy chief of the military group, Commander Schaufelberger was the head of the group&#8217;s naval section and chief of security. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the real world, where there are truly boots on the ground, war always seems to find US troops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reports that some US advisers are experiencing the war in Iraq against ISIS &hellip; <a title=\"US advisers in Iraq; dodging the war is getting harder\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57430\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US advisers in Iraq; dodging the war is getting harder<\/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-57430","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\/57430","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=57430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57430\/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=57430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}