Mattis: US Shifts To ‘Annihilation Strategies’ In Combating ISIS
Defense Secretary James Mattis stated throughout an interview broadcast on Sunday that the U.S. is boosting its military tactic in opposition to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
“The bottom line is we are going to move in an accelerated and reinforced manner, throw them on their back foot. We have already shifted from attrition tactics where we shove them from one position to another in Iraq and Syria, to annihilation tactics where we surround them,” Mattis explained on CBS News’s show called “Face the Nation.”
Mattis revealed how the U.S.’s goal is to stop ISIS fighters from breaking free from strongholds in North Africa and the Middle East in order to avoid lone upcoming attacks in western countries.
“Our intention is that the foreign fighters do not survive the fight to return home to North Africa, to Europe, to America, to Asia, to Africa. We’re not going to allow them to do so. We’re going to stop them there and take apart the caliphate,” he said.
“Attrition is where you keep pushing them out of the areas that they’re in. And what we intend to do by surrounding them is to not allow them to fall back, thus, reinforcing themselves as they get smaller and smaller, making the fight tougher and tougher,” Mattis went on.
The Defense secretary’s remarks come almost a week after ISIS claimed accountability for an attack after Ariana Grande’s concert in Manchester, England that had 22 fatalities.
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