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High Desert Warrior
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Carter urges troops to build
on momentum in Iraq, Syria
WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary
Ash Carter today told troops readying to
deploy to Iraq that they must build on the
momentum to defeat the Islamic State of
Iraq and the Levant.
e secretary addressed service members
set to deploy with the XVIII Airborne Corps
at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. e unit will
replace the III Corps as the American portion
of Operation Inherent Resolve with Army Lt.
Gen. Sean MacFarland passing command to
Army Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend.
Carter called on the troops to help ac-
celerate the defeat of ISIL.
“Last fall we introduced an initial
series of accelerants to help us gather mo-
mentum,” the secretary said. The United
States, he said, deployed additional strike
aircraft and aimed them at new targets
and new categories of targets illuminated
by refined intelligence.
STRATEGY
“We deployed an initial contingent of spe-
cial operations forces to Syria, and expanded
equipping of Syrian Arab forces engaged in
the ght against ISIL, as well as training and
equipping of the Iraqi security forces, includ- of the country along the border with Turkey,
ing the Kurdish peshmerga,” Carter said.
“We introduced an expeditionary targeting
force. And we started to expand our military
campaign to every domain, including cyber.”
The secretary continued, “We also
asked all our coalition countries to make
additional contributions to the campaign,
which they did -- contributing strike air-
craft, special operations forces, trainers,
engineers, logisticians, lift capabilities and
other critical enablers.”
Carter said these e orts have worked, as
Iraqi and Syrian forces have retaken territory
from ISIL.
“As a result, play by play, town after town, pockets of ISIL control along the Tigris River
from every direction and in every domain,
our campaign has accelerated further squeez-
ing ISIL and rolling it back towards Raqqa
and Mosul,” the secretary said.” By isolating
those two cities, we’re e ectively setting the
stage to collapse ISIL’s control over them.”
More needs to be done, the secretary told
the soldiers.
“We’ve seized opportunities, reinforced
success and taken the ght to the enemy,”
Carter said. “But we are not going to rest
-- and that’s why you’re going to build on forces in their o ensive to retake Mosul, cyberspace, because that is what’s necessary
those results, continue to take the ght to Carter said.
the enemy, gather more momentum and
help deliver ISIL a lasting defeat. I have every and making commitments as well,” he added. days ahead.
con dence that you will.”
STOPPING ISIL’S MOVEMENTS
In Syria, indigenous and coalition forces against ISIL. Australia will be expanding partners who are growing in strength, and
will work to shut down the last remaining their training of Iraqi police and border -- most importantly -- we have you,” he said
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Defense Secretary Ash Carter, center, meets with Army Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, left,
XVIII Airborne Corps commanding general, and Army Gen. Robert Abrams, right, U.S.
Army Forces Command commander, upon arriving at Fort Bragg, N.C., July 26.
paths for ISIL ghters to move in and out
the secretary said.
“In Iraq, we will continue enabling the
dedicated Iraqi security forces and Peshmerga
led by Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi and
supported by Kurdish Regional President
Masoud Barzani -- working by, with, and
through the Iraqi government, as we always
have,” he said.
U.S. service members will focus on
helping Iraqi forces pursue mopping-up
operations along the Euphrates River Valley,
Carter said.
“In the north, we will continue to help
the Iraqi security forces clear the remaining
Valley,” he said. “Simultaneously, we will
help the Iraqi security forces -- including the
Kurdish peshmerga -- to re t and generate
the forces and logistical footprint necessary
to isolate and pressure Mosul.”
is strategy will culminate in the col-
lapse of ISIL’s control over the cities of Mosul rears its head, the secretary said.
in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria, Carter said.
e coalition is doing more in the region
with President Barack Obama ordering
an additional 560 troops to support Iraqi
“Other nations are following our lead,
“France is sending back the aircraft carrier “But we have the right campaign plan,
Charles de Gaulle to carry out airstrikes the most capable commanders, motivated
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guards, which will be vital for security in Iraq
after ISIL’s defeat. And the United Kingdom
recently announced it would deploy more
trainers and engineers to Iraq, as well.”
REBUILDING
Taking the territory is the rst move,
holding it will be crucial, the secretary said.
“ ere will be towns to rebuild, services
to reestablish and communities to restore,”
Carter said. “Such progress is critical to
ensuring that ISIL, once defeated, stays
defeated, so that our partners’ gains are
made irreversible.”
e international coalition’s stabilization
and governance e orts must keep pace with
security gains, he said.
“Destroying the fact and the idea of an
Islamic state based on ISIL’s barbaric ideol-
ogy will not be easy,” Carter said. “ e more
ground ISIL loses in Iraq and Syria, the more
they’ll do whatever it takes to cling to their
perverse veil of legitimacy.”
e coalition must stop ISIL wherever it
“We must keep systematically eliminating
every key leader we nd,” he said. “And we
must deny them every safe haven, wherever
they may seek it -- from physical terrain to
to keep our country safe.”
Carter said he knows there will be tough
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