US Banks on Special Ops, Intelligence to Accelerate Anti-IS Efforts

Some crucial details have yet to be worked out as the U.S. prepares to send a new force of special operators to Iraq, but a clearer picture began to emerge Wednesday of a recalibrated strategy designed to slowly but surely destroy the Islamic State terror group in its heartland. A day after U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced the creation of a "specialized expeditionary targeting force," military officials said that despite earlier, larger estimates, the force would...

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