Publication

Dec 2016

This paper stresses the need to reform the US government’s controversial practice of arming, training, and funding of terrorists to overthrow foreign governments. While an attempt to address this issue in the US House of Representatives failed in November 2015, the recent murder of three Green Berets assigned to the CIA’s covert Operation Timber Sycamore, which is designed to train and arm so-called moderate Syrian rebels, might lead to a new bill which would prevent tragedies like the one that just occurred.

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Author Christina Lin
Series ISPSW Publications
Issue 461
Publisher Institut für Strategie- Politik- Sicherheits- und Wirtschaftsberatung (ISPSW)
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