Six problems with Trump’s anti-ISIS strategy

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Publication Date 28/03/2017
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The emerging picture is of an US administration single-mindedly focused on inflicting military defeats, at the expense of the more complicated political dimensions needed to underpin sustainable solutions.

The administration seems single-mindedly focused on inflicting military defeats on ISIS at the expense of the more complicated and longer-term political and diplomatic dimensions needed to underpin sustainable solutions. Europe is going to need to try and fill these gaps if the counter-ISIS fight is going to deliver meaningful progress, instead of fuelling the very conditions and grievances that gave rise to the group in the first place.
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US: The State Department: Press Release, 22.03.17: Statement by Ministers of the Global Coalition: Meeting on the Defeat of ISIS Share https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2017/03/269045.htm
US: The State Department: Factsheet, 22.03.17: The Global Coalition - Working to Defeat ISIS Share https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2017/03/268609.htm
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