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muriel_volestrangler

(101,146 posts)
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 08:27 AM Jan 2015

Pentagon to deploy 400 troops to train Syrian rebels

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - The U.S. military is planning to deploy more than 400 troops to help train Syrian rebels to fight the Islamic State, along with hundreds of U.S. support personnel, a Pentagon spokesman told Reuters on Thursday.

The U.S. military has not yet identified where it will draw its forces from for the training mission, expected to begin in the spring at sites outside Syria, Colonel Steve Warren said. Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have offered to host the training.
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The Pentagon has estimated that it can train more than 5,000 recruits in the first year and that up to 15,000 will be needed to retake areas of eastern Syria controlled by Islamic State.
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Across the border in Iraq, Obama has authorized more than 3,000 U.S. troops to advise and train Iraqi and Kurdish forces.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/16/us-syria-crisis-usa-idUSKBN0KP0FO20150116

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Pentagon to deploy 400 troops to train Syrian rebels (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Jan 2015 OP
How can we be sure get the red out Jan 2015 #1
we can't daleo Jan 2015 #8
Three hundred sent back to Iraq one week, four hundred the next . . . another_liberal Jan 2015 #2
trashing Syria was a mistake quadrature Jan 2015 #3
Are we going to keep them flying in an airplane while they do this? rock Jan 2015 #4
Here we go... again OneAngryDemocrat Jan 2015 #5
We've trained thousands of committed Jihadists in our Quixotic war on Assad. Jesus Malverde Jan 2015 #6
yay /nt jakeXT Jan 2015 #7
 

another_liberal

(8,821 posts)
2. Three hundred sent back to Iraq one week, four hundred the next . . .
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 09:34 AM
Jan 2015

Can escalations of thousands and tens of thousands be far off?

 

quadrature

(2,049 posts)
3. trashing Syria was a mistake
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 09:40 AM
Jan 2015

hundreds of thousands of dead.

Arab Spring .... more like -->

spring summer fall winter
etc etc etc etc
(perpetual war)

OneAngryDemocrat

(2,060 posts)
5. Here we go... again
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 12:03 PM
Jan 2015

Here we go... again.

It don't take no mutha fuckin 400 soldiers to 'train' foreign fighters. There ain't no mutha fuckin 400 drill instructors at MCRD (Marin Corps Recruit Depot) in San Diego. Oh - to be sure, there are more than 400 Marines there fulfilling administrative roles. But I don't recall anyone authorizing US military forces to 'administer' an opposing force in a foreign civil war. This shit sucks ass. Big time.

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