United States will pursue modest goals in Syria
While Washington's policy on Syria's civil war is unchanged, the rise of Islamic State group has shifted its focus
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- Limits of intervention
- Trusted partners
- Training programme
- Militia deployment
- Regime operations
- Strategic shift
- Iraq first
- Prevent jihadi takeover
- Iran
- Creeping interventionism
- Outlook
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_350.jpg "Ash Carter and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey testify during a Senate hearing on the ISG campaign, in Washington (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)")