{"id":60374,"date":"2015-06-15T11:54:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T15:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60374"},"modified":"2015-06-15T11:59:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T15:59:56","slug":"military-advice-to-white-house-caution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60374","title":{"rendered":"Military advice to White House; caution"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post<\/a> reported yesterday that the blame for the White House’s lack of a clear strategy in the war against ISIS rests on the Pentagon because, for some reason, the out going leadership, namely chairman of the joint chiefs Martin Dempsey wants to urge caution;<\/p>\n

Top military officials, who have typically argued for more combat power to overcome battlefield setbacks over the past decade, emerged in recent White House debates as consistent voices of caution in Iraq. Their shift reflects the paucity of good options and a reluctance to suffer more combat deaths in a war in which America\u2019s political leaders are far from committed and Iraqis have shown limited will to fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the past 12 years in the Middle East, there is a real focus by senior military leaders on understanding what the endgame is,\u201d said a military official, \u201cand asking the question, \u2018To what end are we doing this?\u2019?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The end is the utter destruction of ISIS without a chance that they can reform in another entity. The goal is to make ISIS’ brand of warfare and terror too deadly to replicate. But, of course, Dempsey, the Secretary of the Army and the Army Chief of Staff are all retiring from those positions in the next few months, so they’re preserving their legacies, like the current administration – everyone wants to look like they’re doing something when really, they are not.<\/p>\n

In the days that followed [the collapse of the Iraqi Army in Ramadi] , Obama assembled his national security team to fix a strategy that appeared to be foundering.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Like everything else this administration does in regards to ISIS, they were too late. Dempsey knew that Ramadi was going to fall to ISIS more than a month before it happened and the Pentagon did nothing to fight the relatively easier (compared to the planned assault to take Ramadi back) defensive battle. the strategy doesn’t appear to be foundering, it is foundering because a strategy doesn’t exist. But, nothing will change because this administration and any military leaders they appoint to the impending vacancies will just be biding their time for the next president. <\/p>\n

But, given the current crop of candidates for president, I don’t see any danger to ISIS’ future.<\/p>\n

Don’t worry, though, the Shi’ite militias produced two people to talk to the Associated Press<\/a> who don’t want Americans to help them;<\/p>\n

Noting the increased number of U.S. advisers, trainers, logisticians and security personnel, al-Amiri scoffed at the notion that an additional “450 experts will be able to win the battle.”<\/p>\n

“There were 150,000 American troops, thousands of tanks and mortars, and hundreds of jets, and they were unable to do anything to al-Qaida in 2006 and 2007,” al-Amiri said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, there you go. I guess the militias get a vote on the President’s cabinet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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