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Carter Promises Incoming Counter-ISIL Commander ‘Anything He Needs’ For Fight

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Carter Promises Incoming Counter-ISIL Commander ‘Anything He Needs’ For Fight
Defense Secretary Ash Carter, center, meets with Army Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, left, XVIII Airborne Corps commanding general, and Army Gen. Robert Abrams, right, U.S. Army Forces Command commander, upon arriving at Fort Bragg, N.C., July 26, 2016. DoD photo by Air Force Tech. Sgt. Brigitte N. Brantley

FORT BRAGG, N.C. – Secretary of Defense Ash Carter promised the 18th Airborne Corps and its commander Lt. Gen. Steve Townsend a blank check to order resources needed for the hasty defeat of the so-called Islamic State.  “Anything he needs, he will get," Carter said of Townsend, who will take over the campaign against Islamic State (ISIL) militants in Iraq and Syria for Lt. Gen Sean MacFarland.Carter said the deploying troops will take with them “the whole suite” of military…

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