Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks at the St. Regis Hotel in Washington, D.C. He was a guest at the April 30 Monitor Breakfast. Michael Bonfigli/The Christian Science Monitor
Why America's Top General Is Wary Of US Military Intervention In Syria -- David T. Cook, Christian Science Monitor
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a Monitor-sponsored breakfast he has doubts about whether US military action in Syria would achieve three key aims.
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is America's highest-ranking military officer and a key adviser to the president. He was the guest at an April 30 Monitor Breakfast.
Effect of recent Pentagon budget cuts:
"When you have all the resources you need, you no longer have the responsibility to think. So we are thinking. We are trying to think our way through this challenge."
Calls for US military intervention in Syria:
"Whether the military effect would produce ... an end to the violence, some kind of political reconciliation among the parties, and a stable Syria – that's the reason I've been cautious ... because it is not clear to me that it would produce that outcome."
Read more ....
My Comment: His focus is not on Syria. Instead .... his focus is on the budget and U.S. military readiness with the resources that it has.