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Trump’s excellent five-point plan for Syria

By Tom Rogan
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Trump’s excellent five-point plan for Syria

In Syria, President Trump is showing a strategic competency that his predecessor most definitely lacked.

Over the past 12 months, Trump has enabled the U.S. military to engage in a more robust and tactically flexible campaign against ISIS. That choice has led to the caliphate’s territorial implosion and its constrained ability to plot external attacks. Yet as ISIS collapses, Syria retains relevance to U.S. national security.

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