Opinion | Thomas S. Warrick: Another al-Baghdadi-style raid on ISIS militants could soon become mission impossible. - NBCNewsTHINK
’ counterterrorism strategies have called for helping other countries improve civilian counterterrorism capabilities in this regard.
We’re at risk of losing the capabilities that led to Saturday’s success, and of failing to develop the new ones we’ll need for the future. Yet if this approach is going to be successful, particularly if we limit our military options, it requires greater funding than it’s received. In particular, the U.S. needs to invest more in helping our allies build up their civilian counterterrorism, aviation security, border security, terrorism prevention and law enforcement capabilities. The Atlantic Council has been trying to find ways the U.S. and key counterterrorism partners can do this more effectively.
In the meantime, I have no doubt U.S. forces will make the most of any opportunities to disrupt ISIS given Trump’s orders for at least some American troops to stay in eastern Syrian to protect the oil fields there. But this should not be confused with the full support needed from the president to ensure ISIS’ permanent defeat — which he said at the Pentagon days after his inauguration was the reason the U.S. is fighting ISIS in the first place.Thomas S.
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