MESOP STRATEGY : AL QAEDA & ISIS: EXISTENTIAL THREATS TO THE U.S. &EUROPE
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute conducted an intensive multi-week exercise to frame, design, and evaluate potential courses of action that the United States could pursue to defeat the threat from the Islamic State in Iraq and al Sham (ISIS) and al Qaeda in Iraq and Syria. The planning group weighed the national security interests of the United States, its partners, its rivals, and its enemies operating in or influencing the conflicts in Iraq and Syria. It considered how current policies and interests are interacting in this complex environment: Read full pdf report . – See more at: http://understandingwar.org/report/al-qaeda-and-isis-existential-threats-us-and-europe?utm_source=Press+Release%3A+New+ISW-CTP+Series–US+Grand+Strategy%3A+Destroying+ISIS+%26+Al+Qaeda&utm_campaign=Press+Release%3A+New+ISW-CTP+Series–US+Grand+Strategy%3A+Destroying+ISIS+%26+Al+Qaeda&utm_medium=email#sthash.YpZX52UE.dpuf