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Dempsey discusses unsettled, unpredictable world situation

Jim GaramoneDoD News ISIL and the other “alphabet soup” it difficult to distribute the force, … He added, “Those underlying is-
of terrorist organizations bring a new because each kind of threat requires a sues are not going to be resolved for
Defense Media Activity aspect to the fight, he said. These different kind of military instrument.” a generation or more.”
groups share a common interest in
WASHINGTON — The chairman changing the American way of life and Dempsey noted the cliché that ev- Overcoming such issues are key
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said recent- propagating theirs, the chairman said. ery problem looks like a nail if the only to defeating the threat of groups like
ly that the world is more unsettled tool you’ve got in your tool bag is a al-Qaida or ISIL or whatever comes
and unpredictable than at any time Over his career it has been one or hammer. “Well, we’ve got nails, we’ve next, Dempsey said. Just addressing the
during his 41-year military career. the other. When the chairman was got screws, we got bolts, we got, you threat posed by current groups with-
commissioned out of West Point know, thumbtacks,” he said. “There out addressing the underlying causes
Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey in 1974, the superpower rivalry be- are a lot of problems out there.” of their popularity means that another
sat down with DoD News to discuss tween America and the Soviet Union group will rise and take its place, he said.
his four-year tenure as chairman. He dominated strategic thinking. Confronting these threats -- es- Good governance, economic hope, and
retires at the end of the month. pecially the threat of violent ex- laws justly enforced are just as impor-
New Threats Emerge tremism -- will be a generational tant in the fight against terror as bullets
He said one constant throughout his From 2001 to 2011, al-Qaida and its struggle, he said. Some critics have and bombs, the chairman said.
term as chairman has been the increas- affiliates dominated the threat spec- said the United States doesn’t have
ing complexity of the world situation. trum. The U.S. military concentrated the patience for such an effort. The adversary exploits the under-
on counterinsurgency and counterter- lying issues, the exploitation of social
Complex World Situation rorism operations, Dempsey said. Struggle in the Middle East media and the perversion of religion
“It has always been the case that “What’s happened, I think, that in- “It doesn’t matter whether we have to create “a very dangerous, volatile
there have been threats to our national creases the instability now is you’ve the patience -- our adversaries have situation that’s going to take a very
interests, and in some cases in the past, got state actors who are asserting the patience,” Dempsey said. “It is a long time to overcome,” he said.
at home,” the general said. “What’s dif- themselves and trying to change the generational struggle, because the
ferent about this period is that we’ve international order, and you’ve got underlying causes of this violence in “Now, we are getting it done,”
got this kind of convergence of both the persistent threat from these non- the Middle East have a lot to do with Dempsey said. “We’ve got great lead-
state actors who threaten us and we and sub-state groups,” he said. “It’s demographic shifts and tribal and, of ers at every level from lieutenant and
have the persistent threat of, let’s call it the combination of those that makes course, religion, economic disparity, ensign all the way up to general and
sub-state or non-state groups like the bad, bad politics and governance.” admiral, and we’re figuring it out.”
Islamic State of Iraq in the Levant.”

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