{"id":61175,"date":"2015-08-03T11:23:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T15:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61175"},"modified":"2015-08-03T11:23:25","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T15:23:25","slug":"president-approves-use-of-us-air-support-to-syrians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61175","title":{"rendered":"President approves use of US air support to Syrians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2015\/08\/03\/obama-approves-using-us-air-power-to-defend-us-backed-syrian-forces\/?intcmp=hplnws\">Fox News<\/a> reports that the White House has approved a plan to support those 60 Syrian folks that were trained by US advisers with US air power. Well, &#8220;support&#8221; and &#8220;air power&#8221; are two terms with which some people might argue;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Multiple defense officials tell Fox News that any supporting air strikes will be carried out by unmanned drones flying out of Incirlik Air Force Base in Turkey, to avoid the risk of American pilots being shot down by Syrian government planes or anti-aircraft weaponry. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/pentagon-to-defend-new-syria-force-from-assad-regime-others-1438549937\">[Wall Street] Journal<\/a> also reported that the Pentagon is only authorized to carry out offensive air operations when the force comes up against ISIS, and the fighters on the ground have been specifically instructed not to carry out attacks against Assad&#8217;s forces.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For offensive operations, it\u2019s ISIS only. But if attacked, we\u2019ll defend them against anyone who\u2019s attacking them,&#8221; a senior military official told the Journal. &#8220;We\u2019re not looking to engage the regime, but we\u2019ve made a commitment to help defend these people.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I won&#8217;t argue that drones are a valuable asset on the battlefield, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d be all that happy to know that was my only air support available. Maybe that&#8217;s just me. But then, there are only 60 of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reports that the White House has approved a plan to support those 60 Syrian &hellip; <a title=\"President approves use of US air support to Syrians\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61175\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">President approves use of US air support to Syrians<\/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-61175","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\/61175","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=61175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}