Like my peers, I argued to stay the course, to persist and persist, to ‘clear/hold/build’ even as the ‘hold’ stage stretched for months, and then years.”
A US ARMY RANGER shows off his skills at Fort Benning, Georgia. ‘US forces, along with the local Syrian forces, cannot afford to lose the close fight on the ground,’ writes the author(photo credit: REUTERS)ByGAL PERL FINKEL