Pentagon Wants Boots-on-the-Ground in Iraq to Combat ISIS: "Need About 80,000 Troops to Retake Lost Terrain"

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As The Guardian reports,

 General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff,
indicated to the House of Representatives armed services committee that the
strength of Isis relative to the Iraqi army may be such that he would
recommend abandoning Obama's oft-repeated pledge against returning US ground
troops to combat in Iraq.

Retaking the critical city of Mosul, Iraq's second largest, and
re-establishing the border between Iraq and Syria that Isis has erased "will
be fairly complex terrain" for the Iraqi security forces that the US is once
again supporting.

"I'm not predicting at this point that I would recommend that those forces
in Mosul and along the border would need to be accompanied by US forces, but
we're certainly considering it," Dempsey said.