![]() ![]() And the Pentagon can offer letter groups to commanders to inform operation names, the official said, such as UR, which in 1983 prompted a staff officer to recommend Urgent Fury for that year’s attack on Grenada.īeltway commentators were puzzled by Wednesday’s announcement of Inherent Resolve, especially since The Wall Street Journal quoted one military officer criticizing the name as “kind of bleh.” On Wednesday, Kirby told reporters that although “anonymous sources” may have criticized the name, Defense Department leaders never rejected it.įoreign Policy magazine’s Middle East editor, David Kenner, wrote on Twitter that he thought the back-and-forth was emblematic of the Obama administration’s handling of the wider Iraq and Syria crises. The Joint Staff at the Pentagon runs a computer system that helps “validate” names. The Central Command and the military’s other combatant commands have the authority to name their operations, a defense official told POLITICO. ( Also on POLITICO: Poll: Obama hits lowest approval) The persistent lack of one, however, attracted attention inside Washington - especially when the Pentagon quickly branded its response to West Africa’s Ebola outbreak Operation United Assistance. Inherent Resolve had first been mentioned in a Wall Street Journal report about Pentagon and White House discussions about what to name the campaign against ISIL, or whether to give it a name at all.ĭefense officials have downplayed the significance of an operational name, saying such code names have no legal or formal significance. 8 airstrikes in Iraq ordered by President Barack Obama and expanded last month to targets in Syria. Central Command, which is running the campaign in Iraq and Syria, says the new code name applies to military operations that began with the Aug. And the message is, “We are going to stay resolved and determined to get at this threat,” Kirby said. ![]() ( Also on POLITICO: Why the Islamic State Is Losing)ĭefense officials wanted a name that would send a message, he said. John Kirby told reporters Wednesday afternoon. Later, the Joint Staff posted this message on its Twitter account: “Ongoing actions in Iraq & Syria designated as Operation Inherent Resolve.”Īmerican commanders discussed the name with the allies in the campaign against ISIL and got their buy-in before announcing it, Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. Martin Dempsey, walked into the Pentagon press room on Wednesday morning and made the brief announcement. Ed Thomas, a spokesman for Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Information will be added as it becomes available.Air Force Col. Operation Inherent Resolve is still ongoing. By 2019, the footprint of ISIS had all but been eliminated in Iraq and Syria. The cities of Mosul and Tikrit have been liberated, and coalition forces defeated insurgent counterattacks and reclaimed thousands of square kilometers. allies and partners, preserve freedom of navigation, and maintain the free flow of commerce.īy July 2017, CJTF-OIR coalition, Syrian and Iraqi partnered forces made enormous progress against ISIS ambitions. While in the region, ships and strike groups conducted missions to annihilate the Islamic state group as well as reassure U.S. ![]() fleet area of operations and provided maritime security and support. Navy ships and assets deployed to the Arabian Gulf in the U.S. By June 2014, the security situation in Syria and Iraq had severely deteriorated with the Iraqi cities of Mosul and Tikrit falling into ISIS hands.ĭuring the operation, U.S. forces departed Iraq on 15 December 2011, ISIS rose to power and claimed to have an Islamic caliphate throughout the region. ![]() On 17 October 2014, Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve was formally established by the Department of Defense in response to ongoing military actions against the rising threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). ![]()
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