Statt nun kurdische Peshmerga. schiitische Milizionaere und FSA Kaempfer als Bodentruppen zu verheizen, die alle nicht fuer den urban combat gegen die IS-Jihadisten ausgebildet sind und hohe Verluste erleiden werden, sollten die USA selbst Bodentruppen entsenden meint das ISW und hat, denke ich, mit ihrer Kritik der Obama-Strategie voellig Recht. Um den IS nachhaltig zu schlagen und danach eine einigermassen stabile Ordnung zu garantieren, die eine ohne Assad und ohne eine Staerkung des Iran waere, beduerfte es .... as many as 25,000 ground troops in Iraq and Syria. Decisive efforts will belong to Special Forces and special mission units, numbering in the low thousands, in a dispersed footprint. • Support of at least a U.S. Army Combat Aviation Brigade (about 3,300 soldiers) is needed. Two battalion-sized quick reaction forces (QRF) will need to be available at all times, one in Iraq and one in Syria. Two brigades,perhaps 7,000 soldiers in all, are needed to provide these QRFs. Additional forces will be required to securetemporary bases, provide MEDEV AC coverage, and support necessary enablers. • Subsequent operational phases will depend on validating the assumption that the Sunni Arab communities in Iraq and Syria are willing and able to fight alongside the U.S. and our partners against ISIS. • Though this strategy contains a high risk of failure and the near-certainty of U.S. troop casualties, the outcomesof ISIS retaining control of the territory it has seized, an escalated sectarian war, more foreign fighters, and the largest al-Qaeda safe haven it has ever known outweigh those risks.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 20:47:06 +0000
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