{"id":29231,"date":"2017-12-29T09:16:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T14:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29231"},"modified":"2017-12-29T09:16:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T14:16:18","slug":"all-is-not-quiet-on-the-syrian-front-us-to-launch-another-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29231","title":{"rendered":"All Is Not Quiet on the Syrian Front: US to Launch Another War"},"content":{"rendered":"
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All Is Not Quiet on the Syrian Front: US to Launch Another War<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

This is a classic example of flip-flop policy. In November, the US\u00a0promised<\/a>\u00a0Turkey to stop arming Kurdish militias in Syria after the Islamic State was routed. Brett McGurk, the US Special Presidential Envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat Islamic State, explained that after the urban fighting in Raqqa was over “adjustments in the level of military support” would be made. “We had to give some equipment \u2013 and it’s limited, extremely limited \u2013 all of which was very transparent to our NATO ally, Turkey,” he\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0during a special briefing on December 21. In June, the US\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0Turkey it would take back weapons supplied to the Kurdish the People\u2019s Protection Units (YPG) militia in northern Syria after the defeat of Islamic State.<\/p>\n

But sophisticated weapons will continue to be sent to Syria in 2018, including thousands of anti-tank rocket launchers, heat seeking missiles and rocket launchers. The list of weaponry and equipment was prepared by US Department of Defense as part of the 2018 defense budget and signed by Trump of Dec. 12. It includes more than 300 non-tactical vehicles, 60 nonstandard vehicles, and 30 earth-moving vehicles to assist with the construction of outposts or operations staging areas. The US defense spending bill for 2018 (“Justification for FY 2018 Overseas Contingency Operations \/ Counter-Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Train and Equip Fund”) includes providing weapons worth $393 million to US partners in Syria. Overall, $500 million, roughly $70 million more than last year, are to be spent on Syria Train and Equip requirements. The partners are the Kurds-dominated Syria Democratic Forces (SDF). The YPG \u2013 the group that is a major concern of Turkey \u2013 is the backbone of this force.<\/p>\n

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All Is Not Quiet on the Syrian Front: US to Launch Another War This is a classic example of flip-flop policy. In November, the US\u00a0promised\u00a0Turkey to stop arming Kurdish militias in Syria after the Islamic State was routed. Brett McGurk, the US Special Presidential Envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat Islamic State, explained that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15296,8203,776,818,827,862],"class_list":["post-29231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-alex-gorka","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-syria","tag-turkey","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29232,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29231\/revisions\/29232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}