Following US President Barack Obama’s request of Congress to authorize additional military action against the Islamic State terrorists, a brigade of more than 4,000 soldiers will be heading out of Ft. Carson, Colorado to Kuwait, the Associated Press has reported.
Although a large-scale ground combat operation similar to those which took place in Iraq and Afghanistan had been ruled out, this deployment was a three-year option Obama requested specifically to be used against the ISIS, and any “closely related successor entity” to the group, which has overrun sections of Iraq and Syria.
The US Army has had a brigade stationed in Kuwait since the termination of the Iraq war in 2011, and those soldiers, including two units from Ft. Carson, have been working to train local troops from the entire Middle East. Its most recent training missions have been conducted with Jordan and the UAE, who have joined the US-led coalition to fight the Islamic State forces.