Pentagon Ponders Budget Options For Obama's New ISIS Strategy (Updated)

By Tony Bertuca / September 9, 2014 at 5:59 PM
(Editor's Note: This story has been updated to reflect that the Pentagon has requested $28 million in FY-14 OCO funding to pay for American military support teams in Iraq.) The Pentagon is trying to determine what path it will take to resource President Obama's new strategy to combat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which he expects to detail in a speech Wednesday. Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, said the Defense Department was still evaluating whether it...

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