"Remember presidential candidate Donald Trump’s secret plan to defeat the Islamic State? And his boast that he knew more than the generals did about the Islamic State (thus implying he’d replace them once in office)? More campaign rhetoric crashing on the rocks of reality: The Trump administration just endorsed the core elements of former President Barack Obama’s counter-Islamic State plan, and Trump has decided that Obama’s generals weren’t so bad, either."
Read Foreign Policy,
Trump’s ‘Secret Plan’ to Defeat ISIS Looks a Lot Like Obama’s.
Read also the Washington Post,
Pentagon plan to defeat ISIS looks very much like Obama’s approach, which notes:
"The Pentagon is putting the final touches on a promised new counter-Islamic State strategy for Syria and Iraq, and it looks very much like the one the Obama administration pursued, according to senior defense officials."
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