2023-10-27 18:37:49
By Maurin Picard
Published 1 minute ago, Updated 1 minute ago
Marine Maj. Gen. James Glynn (here, in July) oversaw coalition action against the Islamic State group in 2017, in Mosul and then in Raqqa. Cpl. Mitchell Johnson/AP
PORTRAIT – Witness to countless devastations, the marine general measures the enormity of the task awaiting Israeli soldiers in Gaza.
A thousand questions assail the Israeli military planners of the great assault on Gaza. The one who, they promise, will resolve the Hamas problem once and for all. While saving the lives of the hostages and that of the Gazan population caught between the Hebrew hammer and the Islamist hard place. In the shadow of the major decisions to come, a handful of American advisors support the IDF strategists. At their head, a major general of the marines, James Glynn.
Shiny skull, athletic silhouette, this three-star in charge of special operations was accepted without much difficulty. His operational career spans the largest urban battles fought by the American army over the past twenty years. Glynn fought in Iraq in Fallujah in 2004, in Ramadi in 2006-2007, supervised the action of coalition forces in 2017 against the Islamic State group in Mosul, then in Raqqa, the last holdout of the self-proclaimed “caliphate” in Syria .
“Amazing task”
He measures the enormity of the task that…
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