{"id":52582,"date":"2015-12-11T21:31:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T21:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nyt_pentagon_seeks_to_knit_foreign_bases_into_isis-foiling_network\/"},"modified":"2015-12-11T21:31:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T21:31:49","slug":"nyt_pentagon_seeks_to_knit_foreign_bases_into_isis-foiling_network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52582","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) Pentagon Seeks to Knit Foreign Bases Into ISIS-Foiling Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As American intelligence agencies grapple with the expansion of the Islamic State beyond its headquarters in Syria, the Pentagon has proposed a new plan to the White House to build up a string of military bases in Africa, Southwest Asia and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>The bases could be used for collecting intelligence and carrying out strikes against the terrorist group\u2019s far-flung affiliates.<\/p>\n<p>The growth of the Islamic State\u2019s franchises \u201d\u201d at least eight militant groups have pledged loyalty to the network\u2019s leaders so far \u201d\u201d has forced a debate within the Obama administration about how to distinguish between the affiliates that pose the most immediate threat to the United States and Europe and others that are more regionally focused. The regional groups, some officials say, may have opportunistically adopted the Islamic State\u2019s brand to bolster their local clout and global stature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/11\/us\/politics\/pentagon-seeks-string-of-overseas-bases-to-contain-isis.html?_r=0\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As American intelligence agencies grapple with the expansion of the Islamic State beyond its headquarters in Syria, the Pentagon has proposed a new plan to the White House to build up a string of military bases in Africa, Southwest Asia<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52582\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,209,143,168,119,426,155,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-globalization","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}