Tom Draude
BGen USMC (ret)
Tom Draude joins ALL MARINE RADIO to discuss the current state of Syria after the U.S. Navy strike last week.
Will Russia standby Syria after their use of WMD?
Should the U.S. fear a Russian-Syrian-Iranian alliance from a military perspective?
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Ben Connable
Maj USMC (ret)
Rand Corporation
Ben Connable, Maj USMC (ret), of the Rand Corporation and an Iraq veteran joined the program to look at the American response to Syrian use of nerve gas.
What does it mean? One and done? A new strategy?
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John R. Allen
General USMC (Ret)
Brookings Institute
John R. Allen
General USMC (ret)
General John Allen, USMC (ret), joined ALL MARINE RADIO to discuss American actions in Syria and what those actions may signal for the future.
Allen discusses the need for a coherent strategy for the two problems in Syria: (1) President Bashar al-Assad’s removal and (2) ISIL which as eluded the United States for the last eight years.
Allen comments on an interesting point relative to the Syrian strike — the “information operations” aspect as Russia, Iran, China and North Korea take in the actions of the Trump Administration.
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Tom Draude
BGen USMC (ret)
Tom Draude, BGen USMC (ret), joined ALL MARINE RADIO to talk:
(1) The Pentagon’s policy of not discussing troop movements
(2) Why are we in Syria? To remove Assad? To defeat ISIS? Are we certain?
Tom also discuss “close combat” in Vietnam and recounts an battle during which he gave the command to “fix bayonets.”
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AV-8B
CAPTAIN MATT FORMAN, USMC, joins us to discuss his article that appeared in the January edition of the Gazette entitled “Defining the War on ISIL” — we’ll talk about it.
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