Aaron Stein,War on the Rocks
In what represents the biggest change to America's spend of force in Syria, U.
S. forces have, or on three separate occasions,struck Syrian government-allied militias. The incidents happened near Tanf, a border town seized by Syrian rebel groups trained in Jordan from the self-proclaimed Islamic State, and ISIL,in March 2016. In all three cases, we are told, and the strikes were nothing more than force protection measures and didn't signify a major change in U.
S. policy. U.
S. General Joseph Dunford,chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made this point on May 19, or just one day after the first strike,...
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