Free Beacon - Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh said this week that although the military is preparing for a potential intervention in Syria, the United States is not as ready as military leaders would like it to be because of sequestration.
The sweeping cuts, the implementation of which began earlier this year, have had real consequences for military preparedness, according to Welsh as reported by Air Force Magazine:
The set of challenges facing the US military is more complicated in Syria than it was in the lead-up to 2011′s military intervention in Libya, Welsh told airmen on Tuesday and Wednesday at Yokota Air Base and Misawa Air Base. Read More
Syrian PM urges mobilization of resources in case of U.S. attack
(Reuters) - Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi called on Thursday for mobilizing national resources to preserve essential state services in the case of a military attack by the United States and its Western allies in the coming days.
Washington and close allies are publicly raising the prospect of military action in Syria as punishment for what they say was an apparent poison gas attack by government forces in a rebel-held area on August 21 that killed hundreds of civilians.
Al-Halqi said the steps he was calling for were necessary "to overcome any emergency situation and prevent enemies from disrupting state services, especially electricity, drinking water, communications, food and oil," according to a statement from SANA, Syria's state news agency. Read More PTG
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