{"id":158055,"date":"2015-06-10T11:54:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T11:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=158055"},"modified":"2015-06-10T11:54:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T11:54:04","slug":"us-may-end-sending-troops-iraq-dempseys-remarks-suggest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/us-may-end-sending-troops-iraq-dempseys-remarks-suggest\/","title":{"rendered":"US may end up sending more troops to Iraq, Dempsey\u2019s remarks suggest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>The United States seems set for an increase in the number of American boots on the ground in Iraq where Takfiri militancy yet rages on despite airstrikes by a US-led coalition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke of \u201cpotential enhancements\u201d to the US mission in Iraq purportedly to train Iraqi forces.<\/p>\n<p>Dempsey made the remarks at a ceremony in the Israeli military headquarters in Tel Aviv, where he met with Israel\u2019s Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ve made some recommendations on potential enhancements to the training and equip mission,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dempsey\u2019s remarks followed those of Obama\u2019s about lack of a &#8220;complete strategy&#8221; towards ISIL\u2019s presence in the crisis-hit country.<\/p>\n<p>Dempsey said an increase in the number of US troops in Iraq was yet &#8220;to be determined&#8221;, however, reports said expansion of the training could mean sending more US troops to Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>He further noted that the US president has asked the military to \u201ctake a look at what we\u2019ve learned over the last eight months in the train-and-equip program and make recommendations to him on whether there are capabilities that we may want to provide to the Iraqis to actually make them more capable.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/06\/09\/415103\/us-iraq-isil-dempsey-takfiri-barack-obama\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States seems set for an increase in the number of American boots on the ground in Iraq where Takfiri militancy yet rages on despite airstrikes by a US-led coalition. On Tuesday, General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke of \u201cpotential enhancements\u201d to the US mission in Iraq [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-158055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}