Battlefield successes against the Islamic State could force the group to shift away from nation-state status to a less visible terror threat, the commander of the U.S. Central Command said this week.
Army Gen. Joseph Votel, who took over the lead war-fighting command in March, told reporters at the Pentagon the ultraviolent jihadi group’s capabilities have been greatly degraded and dismantled in Iraq and Syria, including significant loss of territory it once controlled. Recent military operations have cut off key supply lines and routes used by foreign fighters.
"As you look across the full battle space, you see that [Islamic State] is under more pressure now than at any other time in the campaign," Gen. Votel said Tuesday. "We are causing the enemy to have to look in multiple directions and they are struggling to respond under this pressure."
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