Trump Orders Counterterrorism Expansion in Yemen

[afwjam]

More than two years after a multi-sided civil war erupted in Yemen that allowed al-Qaida's local franchise to amass power and seize territory, President Donald Trump has told the Pentagon to conduct a complicated counter-terrorism campaign.Trump's decision, just six weeks into his presidency, intends to reverse the largely unchecked expansion across southern Yemen of the group, Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
The willingness to expand counter-terrorism operations inside war-torn Yemen is another signal that Trump is more willing to defer to military commanders on national security policy than was President Barack Obama, who was criticized publicly by three of his four Defense secretaries and privately by uniformed officers for micromanaging the military.
Over two days this past week, armed drones and warplanes conducted more than 30 airstrikes against suspected al-Qaida positions in three Yemeni provinces. They were the first U.S. attacks in the country since an ill-fated Navy SEAL raid in January that killed two dozen civilians, including women and children, al-Qaida militants and Navy SEAL William "Ryan" Owens.

Read more:

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/03/05/trump-orders-counterterrorism-expansion-yemen.html

 

[klamath]

That noninterventism hard at work.....

 

[klamath]

So what we ended up with is a police state expansion at home, debt expansion, and foreign intervention expansion. Drained swamp for sure....Sounds more like NYC's sewage discharge has been installed in the WH.

 

[CPUd]

So what we ended up with is a police state expansion at home, debt expansion, and foreign intervention expansion. Drained swamp for sure....Sounds more like NYC's sewage discharge has been installed in the WH.

To be fair though, DGP Trump has been saying since Day 1 he will do these things.

 

[afwjam]

To be fair though, DGP Trump has been saying since Day 1 he will do these things.

Which is is why I did not support or vote for him, the opposite of Liberty. The real question is why so many on these Ron Paul forums did?

 

[Origanalist]

That noninterventism hard at work.....

His intervention is going to be the best intervention.

 

[afwjam]

His intervention is going to be the best intervention.

He is going to intervene so hard! He will intervene as hard as the Trump Cucksuckers voted for him and as hard as they suck on his short tweets.

 

[Origanalist]

He is going to intervene so hard! He will intervene as hard as the Trump Cucksuckers voted for him and as hard as they suck on his short tweets.

None of that low energy intervention.

 

[MallsRGood]

We're going to liberate so much. You're going to get tired of liberating. you’re going to say, ‘Please Mr. President, I have a headache. Please, don't liberate so much. This is getting terrible.’ And I'm going to say, ‘No, we have to make the Middle East great again.’ You're gonna say, ‘Please.’ I said, ‘Nope, nope. We're gonna keep liberating."

 

[klamath]

Which is is why I did not support or vote for him, the opposite of Liberty. The real question is why so many on these Ron Paul forums did?

yeaw he had three of four different answers for each situation, now however you are seeing the REAL DT.

 

[surf]

we're gonna see the greatest, and I mean greatest ever, blowback in the history of mankind. I mean, we're gonna see blowback from parts of the world we've never seen blowback from before. it'll be youge.

 

[Origanalist]

That earlier blowback? Pfffft, that was nothing, you haven't even seen blowback yet.

 

[RonZeplin]

[video]http://www.military.com/video/guns/machine-guns/going-rambo-in-yemen/5294750377001[/video]

 

[nikcers]

we're gonna see the greatest, and I mean greatest ever, blowback in the history of mankind. I mean, we're gonna see blowback from parts of the world we've never seen blowback from before. it'll be youge.

"We are gonna Bomb, Bomb, Bomb. We're going to get blowback from military intervention, we're going to get blowback at the borders, we're going to get blowback from our trade wars, we're going to ruin our entire economy. And some of you are friends and you're going to call, and you're going to say,

'Mr. President, please, we can't take it anymore, we can't win anymore like this, Mr. President, you're causing blowback, you're bombing too much, please Mr. President, not so much, and I'm going to say I'm sorry, we're going to keep bombing because we are going to make America great again."

 

[CPUd]

Trump Gives Commanders Power to Authorize Military Strikes


Following two days of airstrikes against al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) targets in Yemen, it was revealed Friday that President Donald Trump has granted his military commanders the power to authorize military strikes in certain countries without his permission.

According to the Washington Examiner, Trump instituted the new approval process when he gave the go-ahead for a Jan. 29 special operations mission in Yemen that resulted in the death of Navy SEAL William "Ryan" Owens.

Commanders already had the authority to give the green light for operations in countries with a significant U.S. military presence, but that was not the case under former President Barack Obama in countries such as Yemen, which does not have many American military personnel. Commanders complained that the process for launching strikes in those countries was clunky and lengthy. The new rules make it more streamlined.

Trump will be kept abreast of situations, but Secretary of Defense James Mattis and military leaders who serve under him now have the power to make decisions on their own.

"This was an authority that was delegated by the president, through the secretary of defense to the Central Command commander to carry out," Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt. Jeff Davis told the Examiner.

"I don't want to telegraph future operations, but this is part of a plan to go after a very real threat, to ensure they are defeated and denied the opportunity to plot and carry out terrorist attacks from ungoverned spaces," Davis said.

The U.S. military launched several dozen strikes against the AQAP on Thursday and Friday via manned and unmanned aircraft. Davis said at least 50 of them were carried out.

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/trump-commanders-power-authorize/2017/03/03/id/776827/

 

[CPUd]

Trump administration weighs deeper involvement in Yemen war

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has asked the White House to lift Obama-era restrictions on U.S. military support for Persian Gulf states engaged in a protracted civil war against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, according to senior Trump administration officials.

In a memo this month to national security adviser H.R. *McMaster, Mattis said that “limited support” for Yemen operations being conducted by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — including a planned Emirati offensive to retake a key Red Sea port — would help combat a “common threat.”

Approval of the request would mark a significant policy shift. U.S. military activity in Yemen until now has been confined mainly to counterterrorism operations against al-Qaeda’s affiliate there, with limited indirect backing for gulf state efforts in a two-year-old war that has yielded significant civilian casualties.

It would also be a clear signal of the administration’s intention to move more aggressively against Iran. The Trump White House, in far stronger terms than its predecessor, has echoed Saudi and Emirati charges that Iran is training, arming and directing the Shiite Houthis in a proxy war to increase its regional clout against the Gulf’s Sunni monarchies.

The administration is in the midst of a larger review of overall Yemen policy that is not expected to be completed until next month.

But the immediate question, addressed by Mattis’s memo and tentatively slated to come before the principals committee of senior national security aides this week, is whether to provide support for a proposed UAE-led operation to push the Houthis from the port of Hodeida, through which humanitarian aid and rebel supplies pass.

The Pentagon memo does not recommend agreeing to every element of the Emirati request. A proposal to provide American Special Operations forces on the ground on the Red Sea coast “was not part of the request [Mattis] is making,” said a senior administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss planning and the review.

This official and several others said that Mattis and his advisers have asked for removal of President Barack Obama’s prohibitions, which would enable the military to support Emirati operations against the Houthis with surveillance and intelligence, refueling, and operational planning assistance without asking for case-by-case White House approval.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...1eecd8-0e49-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html

 

[juleswin]

That noninterventism hard at work.....

But we know Hillary was going to be much worse. I mean the witch was going to get us involved in Syria, start a safe zone etc etc. Even you would have to admit that we dodged a bullet, a very interventionist bullet in Hillary.

/s

 

[merkelstan]

I'm a little surprised that they're still trying to call it 'counter-terrorism'. Oh well. Trump's marketing plan to 'go after' ISIS + Al Quaeda and 'stop nation building' probably seemed like a smart middle-of-the-road solution at the time.

I don't think the Bad Guys are very happy with him though. He verbally disrespected their wars too much.

 

[timosman]

Why do we fight so many wars? Do we owe somebody money and they are using us as their bitch?

 

[jmdrake]

Why do we fight so many wars? Do we owe somebody money and they are using us as their bitch?

Simple. Because the American people, in general, are very very stupid. I've seen such stupidity even raise its ugly head here at RPF. Obamabots were like "Yeah Obama bombed Libya but that was okay because....freedom." Trumpbots are like "Yeah Trump bombed Mosul but it's okay because.....freedom." And it's not about owing somebody money. It's about making money and gobs and gobs of it. Have you ever listened to Smeadly Butler's speech "War is a racket?"



Trump is about making money and war makes money. Obama's evil handlers wanted war so Obama gave it to them. Trump is his own evil handler. Some here had hoped that Trump would destroy the GOP. It seems he is destroying the liberty movement instead.