Trump Administration Has Stopped Disclosing Troop Deployments To Iraq and Syria
Donald Trump has quietly begun ramping up U.S. engagement in Iraq and Syria, including troop deployments.
The Trump administration has stopped disclosing significant amounts of information about the U.S. engagement in Iraq and Syria, including the number of U.S. troops being sent to fight.
According to the LA Times, “Earlier this month, the Pentagon quietly dispatched 400 Marines to northern Syria to operate artillery in support of Syrian militias that are cooperating in the fight against Islamic State, according to U.S. officials. That was the first use of U.S. Marines in that country since its long civil war began.”
The U.S. troop surge in the middle east isn’t restricted to just Syria. The Trump administration has also deployed about 300 Army paratroopers to Iraq to work alongside the Iraqi military.
“Neither of those deployments was announced once they had been made, a departure from the practice of the Obama administration, which announced nearly all conventional force deployments,” the LA Times noted.
The secretive troop deployments raise major questions about the lack of public discourse around military engagements around the world.
