Beginning in April, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and the White House announced a number of tactics to accelerate the campaign to retake Mosul from ISIS, but few have been implemented, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday. – DOD Buzz
The siege of Mosul is not impenetrable. “The enemy can still bring foreign fighters into Mosul,” Army Col. Christopher Garver, a Defense Department spokesman in Baghdad, said Wednesday. – Military