A Commentary On US Intelligence Sharing In The Syrian War

President Obama meeting in the Oval Office in late August with his national security advisers to discuss strategy on Syria, in a photo released by the White House. Credit Pete Souza/White House

Seymour M. Hersh, London Review Of Books: Military to Military

Seymour M. Hersh on US intelligence sharing in the Syrian war

Barack Obama’s repeated insistence that Bashar al-Assad must leave office – and that there are ‘moderate’ rebel groups in Syria capable of defeating him – has in recent years provoked quiet dissent, and even overt opposition, among some of the most senior officers on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff. Their criticism has focused on what they see as the administration’s fixation on Assad’s primary ally, Vladimir Putin. In their view, Obama is captive to Cold War thinking about Russia and China, and hasn’t adjusted his stance on Syria to the fact both countries share Washington’s anxiety about the spread of terrorism in and beyond Syria; like Washington, they believe that Islamic State must be stopped.

WNU Editor: I am not a fan of Seymour Hersh .... but his analysis and conclusions are hard to dispute in this post. This is a long post .... but worth the read.

Hat Tip to Jay for this link.

On a side note .... Seymour Hersh focuses on U.S. policy in this post, but it looks like the Germans have taken his analysis as their own policy .... Report: German Intelligence Is Working With Syrian Intelligence. My prediction .... expect more countries to partner up and share their  intelligence with Russia and Syria in 2016 .... even conducting operations together.