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    US: Iraq forces likely need help to regain territory

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    US: Iraq forces likely need help to regain territory

    Published today 20:54 07/03/2014

    WASHINGTON (AFP) -- The US military's top officer said Thursday that Iraqi forces had strengthened their defenses around Baghdad but would need outside help to eventually regain territory lost to Sunni militants. 

    Asked if Iraqi troops could take back lost ground, General Martin Dempsey, told a news conference: "Probably not by themselves."

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    Post by Bama Diva Thu 03 Jul 2014, 1:32 pm

    Iraq's Probably Going to Need Help Taking Back Its Country

    But Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said no U.S. troops will perform combat missions.

    July 3, 2014
    By Jordain Carney

    While initial U.S. assessments suggest that Iraq's security forces are able to defend Baghdad, what about taking back parts of the country that have been lost to insurgents?

    Well, the Pentagon believes Iraq will likely need some help with that.

    "I think that's a really broad, campaign-quality question. Probably not by themselves," said Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, when asked about the ability of Iraqi security forces to retake territory captured by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
    The United States has roughly 650 troops in Iraq. It has also sent planes and ships into the region since the crisis began. ISIS, for its part, declared its territory in Iraq and Syria to be an Islamic state, but Dempsey said he believes their forces are currently stretched thin as they try to maintain their gains. 

    Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday during the joint briefing that U.S. troops currently in Iraqaren't involved in combat missions—and won't be involved in combat missions. But Dempsey seemed to leave the door open, saying that "we may get to that point" when U.S. troops have direct military involvement in Iraq.

    "That is one option, but one I personally don't think [is what] the situation demands," he added, stressing that the current U.S. strategy isn't the same as in 2003 and 2006—when the U.S. invaded Iraq and in the lead-up to the surge of U.S. troops, respectively.

    In the meantime, the United States is still trying to get a full picture of what is going on in Iraq. Imagine trying to solve a Rubik's Cube without being able to see all of the sides.

    Leading that effort is the Pentagon, which has six assessment teams in Iraq. It also has two joint operations centers there—one in Baghdad and a second in Erbil, a large city in northern Iraq.

    And although the Pentagon's top duo are getting early assessments, Hagel said, we "won't have the full complement of all those assessments for a while.

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    Post by Bama Diva Thu 03 Jul 2014, 1:42 pm

    U.S. Puts Little Hope in Iraq Being Able to Push ISIS Back


    By Reuters

    Filed: 7/3/14 at 2:10 PM  | Updated: 7/3/14 at 2:24 PM

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces will probably not be able to recapture ground they have lost to Islamist militants without assistance, the top U.S. military officer said on Thursday.

    General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that U.S. advisers now in Iraq were reporting that Iraq's military was "capable of defending Baghdad" but it "would be challenged to go on the offense, mostly logistically challenged."

    "If you're asking me will the Iraqis at some point be able to go back on the offensive, to recapture the part of Iraq that they've lost, I think that's a really broad campaign quality question," Dempsey told reporters at the Pentagon. "Probably not by themselves."

    Iraq is grappling with an onslaught of Sunni Muslim militants from an al Qaeda offshoot who have seized large areas of northern and western Iraq and are threatening to march on the capital Baghdad.

    Militants were able to seize so much territory in part because forces under Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki deserted their positions in the face of the militant advance last month.

    The United States, which focused much of its effort following its 2003 invasion of Iraq building up Iraq's security forces, is now seeking to help the Iraqi military repel those militants.

    At the same time the Obama administration does not want to get bogged down in another war in Iraq, especially with political bickering continuing in Baghdad as officials try to form a new government in the aftermath of the April election.

    Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said U.S. forces had established a second U.S.-Iraq Joint Operations Center in Iraq. The new center, in Arbil, the capital of the semi-autonomous northern region, will complement work done by the first center in Baghdad.

    U.S. forces also have six assessment teams on the ground in Iraq, Hagel said. The U.S. military presence aims to evaluate the current state of the Iraqi military and how U.S. forces can best act to help the government repel the militants.

    "We have a much better intelligence picture than we did two weeks ago and it continues to get better," Dempsey told reporters.


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