With the Caliphate Crushed, What's Next?
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War on the Rocks
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🗓️ 25 February 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
With the last slivers of Syrian territory being wrested from the grasp of the Islamic State, where does the war against this tenacious terrorist organization go next? To understand where we came and where we are heading, we assembled a fantastic cast of experts that co-hosts Usha Sahay and Ryan Evans did their best to wrangle: Rasha al-Aqeedi of FRPI, Ryan Fishel of the U.S. Air Force, Hassan Hassan of the Tahrir Institute, Haroro Ingram of Program on Extremism at GWU, Brett Reichert of the U.S. Army, and Aaron Stein of FPRI.
Our guests in this episode range from people who fought the self-proclaimed Caliphate on the ground and in the air to scholars, think tankers, and analysts.
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| 0:17.0 | You are listening to the War on the Rocks podcast on strategy, defense, and foreign affairs. My name is Ryan Evans, I'm the editor-in-chief of War in the rocks. |
| 0:20.0 | In this episode, we assess the anti-Islamic state campaign as it comes to an end supposedly |
| 0:24.8 | as ISIS is being driven out of its last territorial holdings. |
| 0:29.6 | Where do we stand with Syria? |
| 0:30.8 | Where do we stand with Iraq? |
| 0:32.1 | And where is this campaign going next. |
| 0:35.0 | To talk about these issues we assembled a stellar panel and as a first for the |
| 0:38.5 | War on the rocks podcast the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation came by to film this |
| 0:42.0 | episode. |
| 0:43.3 | So check out their segment on the same topic. |
| 0:48.0 | I am Rhett Reicher. |
| 0:49.2 | I was a ground force commander in Mosul, Iraq, and a primary advisor to the counterterrorism service. |
| 0:54.0 | The obligatory sort of thing that I need to say is obviously the opinions expressed here today |
| 0:58.8 | are not those of the Department of Defense, the joint staff of the United States Army, |
| 1:02.1 | they're mine and mine alone. |
| 1:04.4 | My name is Ryan Fisher. |
| 1:05.2 | I was a weapon system officer in the F-15E. |
| 1:08.6 | In 2017, we went to around Syria and Iraq as well. |
| 1:13.4 | And I need the same disclaimer. |
| 1:15.2 | Nothing I say represents the DoD or the Air Force. |
| 1:17.5 | I'm sure if it did, they'd send somebody |
| 1:19.5 | smarter and better looking, maybe. And I'm Arrenstein, the director of the foreign, sorry, the Middle East program |
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