Smoke billows after an air strike by Iraqi forces towards the positions of the Islamic State militants in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq June 25, 2017. REUTERS/Erik De Castro
Julian Borger, The Guardian: US air wars under Trump: increasingly indiscriminate, increasingly opaque
Lack of transparency over looser rules of engagement is hallmark of administration, writes Julian Borger
The escalating air war in Somalia is part of a global pattern of an ever broader and unfettered use of air power that has it roots in the Obama administration but which has been spurred on and expanded under Donald Trump.
In the first year of his presidency, Trump has gone out of his way to claim credit for the defeats inflicted on Islamic State, attributing it to his loosening of constraints on his generals.
“I totally changed rules of engagement. I totally changed our military,” the president said in October.
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WNU Editor: The war to defeat the Islamic State exploded when President Trump came to the Oval Office .... so no one should be surprised if airstrikes exploded proportionally. The key thing now is to see how this evolves in the coming year. My prediction .... the air war is going to shift to Afghanistan.
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