he has a sense of urgency about it and there s 2,000 forces of additional commitment as high as 12,000 which would include conventional ground forces, artillery units. you re seeing one being deployed right now. apache helicopters and additional special operation forces. the president has to make a decision about all that and i m certain once that operation truly commences he ll begin to talk about it to the american people but likely not before that. shannon: there s been criticism that president trump has micromanaged and done smaller efforts. do you think it goes bigger and broader with the military moves. he is using the right terms to defeat isis and wants to do it quickly. president obama since the invasion of iraq isis conducted in january of 2014 it took us nine months to respond to that
more u.s. troops conventional and special forces as the battle for raqqah is set to begin in the next several weeks. shannon: connor, any signs the u.s. may be increasing corporation with russia in syria? this week we saw the heads of the u.s. military, russian military and turkish military meeting to not only discuss cooperation between the three countries to battle isis and to help smooth out some problems we re seeing. there s a fight brewing in syria between several u.s. allies there, the kurdish rebels and the turkish military are at odds over who should battle isis. the kurds and the turks view each other as enemies but they re both valuable u.s. allies and so both u.s. and russia are trying to lean on the two groups to try to smooth over some of the concerns they have about working with each other in this fight against isis. the u.s. and russia are trying to focus the energy on battling isis and putting aside
invasion, by the way. we have made 12 troop incremental changes from the summer of 2014 to the present. that s not the way to conduct a campaign. what the president has asked for as commander-in-chief he said bring me a campaign plan to defeat isis not just in iraq and syria but entirely. that s what military planning is truly all about. shannon: well, and you know there s always a conversation when troops are sent closer to the front lines, u.s. troops there s always skittishness with the american people something the last administration was incredibly sensitive to but if you re going to defeat a group like isis how involved will we have to get with boots on the ground and a bigger commitment in the region. those are choice the president has to make and clearly knows the american people are supporting defeating isis and as quickly as possible.
plichloride and china are the ones that mine them and produce them and in many cases they then sell them to us. when we talk about talking to china if they cut off the supply we re done and at the base level and not just a tanker and airplane but stuff used in the tanks and airplanes to maintain our technological advantage. that s what we re trying to do. we need to create the market and reopen the mines to have americans producing he s rare metals used in all of our defense stuff. bill: duncan hunter the republican congressmen from california and to read more go to foxnews.com/opinion. shannon: a convoy of marines arriving in syria joining the fight to put isis out of raqqah
special forces veteran, green beret and served three terms of duty in afghanistan. a pleasure to have you with us. from time to time they find it helpful propaganda-wise to release these kinds of video. we ve seen them putting guns in the hands of little kids before and shooting people. it is horrific and just kills the sensibilities of anybody who looks at it. why now? what s the strategy? a couple of days ago through an air strike killed one another key member of isis in syria. i think this is just another thing to show a, we still have the ability to fight back and number two, we aren t going anywhere and there is another generation of kids being indoctrinated into the isis mentality. as you said before the break, this is just an absolute depravity. i have a 2-year-old son. this kid should be in school right now but instead we re seeing this is the next