US sending targeted assassins to kill ISIS leaders

“You need a lot of special operators to maintain a certain tempo, to be able to not only capture or kill the targets, but also exploit intelligence and then use that exploited intelligence to do another raid”, he said today on MSNBC.

While the new special operations force is “not going to singlehandedly destroy ISIL”, Obama said they will help US efforts by gathering intelligence against the group and help identify and help direct airstrikes.

He said the United States had asked other members of the 28-nation Western security alliance to provide special operations forces to provide such things as police training, ammunition and other items to Syria’s neighbors. However, this announcement implies the Pentagon is looking to make their role in Iraq a more permanent fixture in the battle against IS and escalates the US’ role in the conflict.

U.S. President Barack Obama has approved a plan to send Special Forces to Syria as well.

But there is growing acknowledgement in the Pentagon that it is impossible to effectively fight the IS group without some USA ground presence.

They faced skeptical lawmakers who argued that the USA needs to be more forceful in countering the threat from IS, credited with attacks in Paris and Beirut and the downing of a Russian airliner. Senator Chris Murphy said increasing the number of US military personnel in Iraq “is a mistake”.

– In Syria, after the failure of a plan to train rebels, Washington has offered support since October 12 to a coalition of Kurdish militia and rebel groups: the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance between the powerful YPG and other Syrian rebel groups.

The troops who will go on raids will come from the often secretive Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the individual was not authorized to publicly discuss military planning. “That’s the sensation that we want all of ISIL’s leadership and followers to have”.

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter and the top U.S. military officer, Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, said on Tuesday Congress should debate and vote on a formal authorization to use military force against Islamic State. In the United States, it means considering more troops on the ground in Iraq. One of the few successes these Iraqi militiamen had had was at Takrit, and that only because Obama ordered the US Air Force to give them air support. So they started looking for more plausible explanations for USA failures in the Middle East, and have concluded that the US isn’t really failing, but carrying out a carefully calculated strategy to support the Islamic State group, according to The Daily Caller.

“You need several thousand people”, said Harmer, a former U.S. Navy commander.

“So, actual forces who can do offensive kinetic operations, it’s a very small number, double-digit number”, he said.

Were not doing it at the level we should be doing it, Hurd said in a November 19 interview.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 1, 2015, before the House Armed Services Committee hearing on the U.S. Strategy for Syria and Iraq.How Much Has the US Fight Against ISIS Cost? “So no, this is not mission creep”, Warren said.

“I do not believe we are limited by the number 3,500”.