{"id":57862,"date":"2015-01-25T13:32:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T18:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57862"},"modified":"2015-01-25T13:32:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T18:32:42","slug":"yemen-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57862","title":{"rendered":"Yemen strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the Associated Press<\/a>, President Obama doesn’t see a need to change the strategy in Yemen just because the government there has collapsed under the weight of Shiite revolutionaries;<\/p>\n

Obama, who is traveling in India, said U.S. operations against a dangerous al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen would not stop because of the country’s political vacuum. In his first public remarks on Yemen since the country’s American-backed president and Cabinet resigned after rebels seized the capital last week, the president rejected the notion of moving away from the current drone-based campaign to a heavier footprint on the ground.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Obama said that the US will “refine and fine-tune this model” – “this model” being his drone campaign. I’m pretty sure that new government in Yemen isn’t going to continue giving their permission to the US for our drone strikes.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Senator John McCain and Dianne Feinstein are calling for more special operations “boots on the ground”, according to another Associated Press<\/a> article;<\/p>\n

McCain – a Republican who heads the Senate Armed Services Committee – and Feinstein tell CBS’ “Face the Nation” that special operations forces in particular may be necessary to blunt Iranian influence in Yemen and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, says the U.S. needs more human intelligence in the region and to not rely so heavily on intelligence gathered by technical means.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

John McCain’s answer to everything is “more troops”, he needs to get over that before he gets a reputation. There must be a more successful middle ground here between more drones and more troops, something like a less-restrictive ROE for the drones. If McCain gets his way, they need to consider a less-restrictive ROE for those troops, too. The reason ISIS and al Qaeda exist at all is because of the lawyers and politicians who don’t want the armed forces to actually kill people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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