President Donald Trump has given the Pentagon 30 days to develop a strategy to defeat ISIS. Following a telephone conversation with Russian President Putin, Trump signed an executive order directing the military to develop a preliminary plan to defeat the terrorists in Iraq and Syria. RT reports: It is the policy of the United States that ISIS be defeated,” reads the order published on the White House website on Saturday. “Within 30 days, a preliminary draft of the Plan to defeat ISIS shall be submitted to the President by the Secretary of Defense.” The comprehensive plan should include guidelines on the use of public diplomacy, information operations, and cyber strategies “to isolate and delegitimize ISIS [Islamic State, formerly ISIL] and its radical Islamist ideology.” It will also seek to identify “new coalition partners in the fight against ISIS and policies to empower coalition partners” to fight Islamic State and its affiliates. The number of proposed measures “would depend upon the political risk that the president is willing to take when we do certain things that could exacerbate things with Russia or Turkey,” one defense official told Washington Post on Monday. Earlier in the day, Trump and Putin had their first telephone conversation, [...]
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