Robert Murrett
Murrett writes: “This week’s attack on coalition troops at Al Assad airbase in Iraq underscores the wide-ranging interests that the U.S. has in the Middle East, as well as the options that Tehran has to mount operations with its surrogate forces in the region. Of particular interest, the U.S. and our partner nations deployed as part of Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) continue to conduct successful operations against insurgent affiliated with ISIL in Iraq and elsewhere. Iran will likely continue to carefully calibrate retaliatory attacks in the Middle East and adjacent waters, and telegraph intentions and objectives that we will have to deal with well into the future.”
