{"id":60296,"date":"2015-06-10T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60296"},"modified":"2015-06-10T07:55:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T11:55:53","slug":"pentagon-recommends-13-increase-to-us-troops-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60296","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon recommends 13% increase to US troops in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2015\/06\/10\/pentagon-recommends-sending-additional-400-us-troops-to-iraq\/?intcmp=latestnews\">Fox News<\/a> reports that the Pentagon has recommended to the White House that another 400 US troops be deployed to Iraq to join the 3000 who are already there training the Iraqis to fight the ISIS invaders from the Syrian Civil War;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The official said that the White House had not made a final decision on the recommendation, which would bring the total number of American troops in Iraq to approximately 3,400. <\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon also plans to open a sixth training base in Iraq&#8217;s Anbar province, a vital battleground against the terror group. No Iraqi troops are currently being trained by U.S. forces at the al-Asad airbase in Anbar.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon says that the additional forces and base are aimed at bolstering the number of Sunni Muslims in the fight against ISIS. Currently, there are 2,598 Iraqi forces being trained by U.S. forces. Of that number, about 800 are Kurds and the rest are Shiite Muslims.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wait, wait, wait. We have 3000 troops training 2600 Iraqis? The concept is called using US troops as &#8220;force multipliers&#8221; &#8211; one US soldier having a training impact on several allied foreign soldiers who will then be used in the actual fighting. I guess everyone gets their own personal trainer, and it looks more like US trainers are &#8220;force equalizers&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The President was correct when he said there is no strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reports that the Pentagon has recommended to the White House that another 400 US troops be deployed to Iraq to join the 3000 who are already there training the Iraqis to fight the ISIS invaders from the Syrian Civil War; The official said that the White House had not made a final decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/last-convoy-out-of-Iraq.jpg?fit=294%2C112&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-fGw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}