Attacking Syria: Updating the Desert Fox Blueprint While the U.S. is trying to cobble together a coalition of the willing to give some legal cover for attacking Syria, American military planners are fine-tuning a playbook that at first glance may look a lot like Operation Desert Fox, a four-day bombing campaign against Iraq’s elusive weapons of mass destruction in 1998. Tactically, that is. Operation Jasmine Jolt, or whatever the Pentagon ends ...
Aug. 28, 2013 - Swampland