Colin P. Clarke
The Defense Department is in the process of drafting plans to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria after some of President Donald Trump’s recent comments. When asked in late January about withdrawing the remaining U.S. forces from the country, Trump replied, “Syria is its own mess. They got enough messes over there. They don’t need us involved in every one.”
But if the Trump administration does decide to move forward with drawing down the U.S. military footprint in Syria, it will be doing so at a dangerous time. Last year, Islamic State attacks in Syria tripled from the previous year. This increased operational tempo was not just about quantity but sophistication, lethality, and geographic spread of attacks.
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