The following article by Greg Jaffe was posted on the Washington Post website April 5, 2018:
At a news conference April 3, President Trump said he wanted to remove U.S. troops from Syria and touted “success” in the fight against the Islamic State. (Reuters)
President Trump’s pronouncement that he would be pulling troops out of Syria “very soon” has laid bare a major source of tension between the president and his generals.
Trump has made winning on the battlefields of Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan a central tenet of his foreign policy and tough-guy identity. But Trump and the military hold frequently opposing ideas about exactly what winning means. Continue reading “For Trump and his generals, ‘victory’ has different meanings”