{"id":2073,"date":"2017-05-12T12:29:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T12:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2017-05-12T12:29:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T12:29:39","slug":"the-pentagon-would-consider-sending-more-u-s-troops-to-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/05\/12\/the-pentagon-would-consider-sending-more-u-s-troops-to-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"THE PENTAGON WOULD CONSIDER SENDING MORE U.S. TROOPS TO SOMALIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sourced : Military Times<\/p>\n

By: Andrew deGrandpre<\/p>\n

The Trump administration would consider deploying additional U.S. troops to Somalia should the troubled African nation request greater military aid to combat al-Qaida loyalists there, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis indicated Thursday.<\/p>\n

“That’s a decision we’ll take if it’s broached to us, and we’ll decide yes or no,” Mattis told reporters after attending a London security conference focused on the Somali government’s relentless struggle with the extremist group al-Shabaab.<\/p>\n

No such request has been made by the Somali government and it was not discussed in London, Mattis said. But his openness to entertaining such a possibility highlights the Pentagon’s evolving perspective on how aggressively it should support indigenous forces willing to fight mutual adversaries.<\/p>\n

Read more at : http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/articles\/us-troops-somalia-al-shabaab-jim-mattis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sourced : Military Times By: Andrew deGrandpre The Trump administration would consider deploying additional U.S. troops to Somalia should the troubled African nation request greater military aid to combat al-Qaida loyalists there, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis indicated Thursday. “That’s a decision we’ll take if it’s broached to us, and we’ll decide yes or no,” Mattis… Continue reading THE PENTAGON WOULD CONSIDER SENDING MORE U.S. TROOPS TO SOMALIA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1495,1493,476,1494],"class_list":["post-2073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-al-qaida","tag-al-shabaab","tag-somalia","tag-u-s-troops","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2075,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions\/2075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}