The withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan represent a major shift for post-9/11 U.S. foreign policy, which has been dominated for two decades by fights against terrorist groups based in Afghanistan and the Middle East. The Pentagon’s new military blueprint calls for U.S. forces to prepare to fight traditional state rivals, particularly Russia and China.
Despite the new American role, the president stressed that the U.S. will continue to battle remnants of the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS. The terrorist group no longer holds significant territory but still has many thousands of trained fighters in its ranks. ISIS recently claimed responsibility for a bombing in Baghdad that killed 35.
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