{"id":92141,"date":"2019-10-26T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=92141"},"modified":"2019-10-26T08:06:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T12:06:25","slug":"yeah-were-still-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=92141","title":{"rendered":"Mechanized Force to Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/resizer\/4Sws-gpkRF7_ju7TcMimVWu2vxk=\/1200x0\/filters:quality(100)\/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-mco.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/6FILL2JNHZEEDLQYAALWWXAWE4.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"caption credit \" style=\"text-align: center;\">An M1 Abrams tank scans its sector at the Udairi Range Complex in Kuwait, Dec. 8, 2018. (Spc. Jovi Prevot\/Army National Guard)<\/h5>\n<div class=\" mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2019\/10\/24\/the-us-is-pulling-troops-out-of-syria-and-afghanistan-but-the-tonnage-of-airdropped-supplies-is-spiking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. military<\/a>\u00a0is planning to send some kind of mechanized force to help keep oil fields in eastern Syria from slipping into the hands of a resurgent ISIS as American troops withdraw from the region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\" mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">But the plan to send armor to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2019\/10\/16\/what-it-means-for-us-bases-in-syria-to-be-occupied-by-syrian-and-russian-forces\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0Syria\u00a0<\/a>could add extra manpower and logistical strains for U.S. forces in Syria at a time when President Donald Trump is seeking to end America\u2019s involvement in the country and put a stop to the forever wars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2019\/10\/25\/us-to-send-mechanized-forces-to-secure-syrian-oil-fields\/\">https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2019\/10\/25\/us-to-send-mechanized-forces-to-secure-syrian-oil-fields\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\" mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">\u201cWe are reinforcing that position, it will include some mechanized forces, again I\u2019m not going to get into the details but the mission in Syria remains what the mission in Syria began with, it\u2019s always been about defeating the ISIS coalition. That is the core mission,&#8221; Defense Secretary Mark Esper told NATO defense ministers in Brussels Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An M1 Abrams tank scans its sector at the Udairi Range Complex in Kuwait, Dec. 8, &hellip; <a title=\"Mechanized Force to Syria\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=92141\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mechanized Force to Syria<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army-news","category-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92141","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\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92142,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92141\/revisions\/92142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}