Should the U.S. Send Ground Troops to Fight ISIL in Iraq? Point/Counter-Point
November 2, 2015
Over at Task & Purpose, James Cook U.S. Naval War College and Ryan Evans of War on the Rocks square off over this question: Should Washington dispatch U.S. ground forces to fight the Islamic State on Iraqi territory?
What do you think? You can weigh in with your vote.
Sorry Ryan, I think James’ has the more solid rationale here. Such limited support would not, IMHO, fundamentally retard the development of independent ISF action, on the contrary embedding coalition military personnel at mid level command would probably address most of the organisational deficiencies listed previously. We are not talking about large scale war-fighting by US ground forces.