Summarize the main thrust of the author’s argument or explanation
Summarize the main thrust of the author’s argument or explanation, cite key points of evidence or thought.
distilling key points from the article.
For Trump and his generals,‘victory’ has different meaningsBy Greg Jaffe April 5 Email the author
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.
Those differences have played out in heated Situation Room debates over virtually every spot on the globe where U.S. troops are engaged in
combat, said senior administration officials. And they contributed to the dismissal last month of Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster who as national security
adviser had pressed the president against his instincts to support an – open-ended commitment of U.S. forces to Afghanistan.
Trump’s words, both in public and private, describe a view that wars should be brutal and swift, waged with overwhelming firepower and, in
some cases, with little regard for civilian casualties. Victory over America’s enemies for the president is often a matter of bombing “the s–
– out of them,” as he said on the campaign trail. He returned to the theme this week. “We’re knocking the hell” out of the
Islamic State, Trump said at a rally in Ohio last month. The boast was a predicate to the president insisting that U.S. troops would be “coming
out of Syria real soon.” For America’s generals, more than 17 years of combat have served as a lesson in the limits of overwhelming force to end wars fueled by sectarian feuds, unreliable allies and persistent government corruption. “Victory is…………………………………………………………………………………..
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