US Army Delta Force.
On March 10, the US Department of Defense announced that special forces soldiers from the long-range target strike force (ETF) had captured Souleimane Daoud al-Bakkar, also known as Abou Daoud, a US chemical weapons expert.
This victory once again confirms the effectiveness of the special anti-terrorism method applied by President Obama, which is a smooth combination of intelligence and special forces, according to Le Monde.
Jaques Follorou, defense commentator for Le Monde, said that this arrest not only significantly reduces IS’s ability to create chemical weapons, but also helps the US collect a lot of important information to proceed.
From the first increase in troops for the Iraq stabilization strategy in 2006 to the campaigns against IS, the US military has applied the same method of action, which is to use two intelligence and intelligence forces at the same time.
Since mid-2015, elite US special forces teams have conducted many lightning raids deep into rebel-controlled territory, capturing and killing many high-ranking commanders.
In one such raid on Syrian territory last year, US special forces killed Abou Sayyaf, the person in charge of IS’s highest finances.
At the Halifax international security forum in late November 2015, General John Allen, who once headed the international coalition against IS, emphasized the role of this strategy in the fight against IS.
`To repel IS, it is necessary to narrow the time between gathering intelligence and using that information in combat,` Mr. Allen affirmed.
US fighter jets during an air strike against IS.
On the night of March 8, a number of other US special forces conducted a helicopter raid against Muslim extremists belonging to the Al-Chabab organization in the city of Awdhegele, Somalia.
Many similar attacks also took place in Libya and Yemen without causing any damage to civilians, because the special forces had quite specific intelligence information about the locations of terrorist elements.
Previously, the strategy of combining intelligence and special forces was used on a large scale by the US military to fight Taliban rebels in Afghanistan.
After NATO withdrew troops at the end of 2014, Washington still left behind an experienced special forces unit in Afghanistan.
`Under President Obama, the US had an ‘unwritten’ rule, which was to give special forces a central role both in combat and in resolving hot spots around the world to minimize damage.
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