
During his press conference in Turkey this Monday, President Obama suggested his critics talk tough on ISIS but don’t have any real suggestions to offer other than putting “large numbers of U.S. troops on the ground.”
by John Sexton20 Nov 2015, 8:44 PM PST0

U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, while addressing the Reagan National Defense Forum, said the United States needs “much more than airstrikes” to defeat the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria.
by Edwin Mora9 Nov 2015, 7:12 AM PST0

President Obama struggled to keep his “no boots on the ground” talking point alive on Monday, saying in an interview with NBC News that U.S. special forces about to be deployed in Syria do not count, because they are not supposed to fight front-line combat operations against ISIS, and smaller units of special operations troops have been working in Syria for some time.
by John Hayward3 Nov 2015, 6:15 PM PST0

The White House officially “announced” on Friday that small teams of U.S. special forces would be deployed in Syria, totaling up to 50 commandos on the ground.
by John Hayward30 Oct 2015, 8:36 AM PST0

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Jack Reed (D-RI), the ranking-member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said on Thursday that the use of “ground forces” is required to resolve the Syrian conflict.
by Edwin Mora8 Oct 2015, 3:48 PM PST0

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump suggested a plan to defeat ISIS during an interview with 60 Minutes’s Scott Pelley, challenging the current tactic—“We’re fighting ISIS and Assad has to be saying to himself, “They are the nicest or dumbest people that I’ve ever imagined.”
by Alex Swoyer27 Sep 2015, 4:57 PM PST0

An estimated two-thirds of Americans think U.S. boots on the ground are necessary to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a NBC News/Marist poll found.
by Edwin Mora15 Feb 2015, 8:32 PM PST0