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U.S.-Led Coalition Targeting Islamic State Is Beset by Strategic Differences

(Washington Post) Craig Whitlock and Karen DeYoung - Military chiefs from the U.S. and 21 other countries convened Tuesday in Maryland to discuss the campaign against the Islamic State. President Obama cited some preliminary "important successes," but warned that "this is going to be a long-term campaign." 60 countries are now participating in the coalition, according to the Obama administration. Shadi Hamid, a Middle East scholar with the Brookings Institution, noted, "The coalition partners have very different conceptions about the regional order and don't even agree on what the primary threat is....You have all these different actors who want different things and in some cases also strongly dislike each other."
2014-10-15 00:00:00
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