(Military Times) Shawn Snow - For nearly five years American commandos have served beside Kurdish-led forces as they battled ISIS across northern Syria. Now Kurdish fighters in Syria are embracing Russia and Syrian regime forces for help against the Turkish incursion. This may prove to be an intelligence bonanza for Russia and Syria since the Kurdish fighters spent years working alongside Americans, learning their tactics, techniques, procedures, equipment, and intelligence gathering methods. A former U.S. military intelligence operator, who spent years working with special operations forces, said the potential spillover of sensitive tradecraft or information was "super problematic."
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